Staff ML Engineer, Foundation Models

Waymo•Mountain View, CA

9d•$251,000 - $310,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. The mission of the Waymo AI Foundations team is to develop machine learning solutions addressing open problems in autonomous driving, towards the goal of safely operating Waymo vehicles in dozens of cities and under all driving conditions. As part of our work, we also initiate and foster collaborations with other research teams in Alphabet. AI Foundations areas that we are currently focusing on include reinforcement learning, learning from demonstration, generative modeling, Bayesian inference, hierarchical learning, and robust evaluation. This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to a Director of AI Foundations.

Requirements

Experience in building large-scale systems
Track record of solving complex system problems
Track record of successful deliveries through large-scale collaborations

Nice To Haves

Experience in LLM/VLM related foundation models or systems
Experience with foundation model post-training

Responsibilities

Work on connecting large-scale foundation models with production systems.
Adapt our foundation models to new sensors, new platforms, and new production requirements.
Collaborate extensively with other teams to land foundation models to our next-gen platforms.