Staff TLM, Perception, Scene Understanding

Waymo • Mountain View, CA

9d • 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 Perception team builds the system which learns the spatial-temporal representation and their semantic meanings of the surrounding environment of the self-driving car, i.e., the system that “perceives” the world around the car. We work jointly with downstream teams on the optimization and integration into the Waymo Driver. We conduct our own research to address real-world problems and collaborate with research teams at Alphabet. We have access to millions of miles of driving data from a diverse set of sensors, enabling engineers like you to (1) develop methods for efficiently and continuously learn from large scale real-world data, (2) develop models and model training at scale, (3) analyze real-world behavior and develop systems for handling the complexities of interacting with the real-world, and (4) optimize models for our onboard and offboard hardware.
In this hybrid role you will report to a Sr Staff Technical Lead Manager.

Requirements

• Bachelors in Computer Science or a similar discipline, or an equivalent amount of deep learning experience
• 5+ years experience in Machine Learning and/or Computer Vision
• 2+ years in managing ML engineering or research teams
• Experience with Python
• Experience with ML frameworks like PyTorch or JAX

Nice To Haves

• MS or PhD Degree in Machine Learning, Robotics, Computer Science or a similar discipline
• Publications at top-tier conferences like CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICLR, ICML, ICRA, RSS, NeurIPS, AAAI, IJCV, PAMI
• Experience with C++
• Experience with real-time system design

Responsibilities

• Own a specific domain within scene understanding, such as traffic controls or construction zones, and work with product and safety partners on short- and long-term improvements in support of Waymo’s scaling goals
• Lead the analysis of real-world scene understanding issues to develop technical roadmaps and drive the roadmap execution
• Build resilient and high performing teams through people development and hiring
• Make project staffing decisions, technical decisions, drive escalations; ultimately accountable for delivering projects.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees