Machine Learning Engineer, Waymo

Perception Foundation Model

$192-243k

Plus discretionary annual bonus program and equity incentive plan

Junior, Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Mountain View, CA

Autonomous driving technology

Be an early applicant

Autonomous driving technology

1001+ employees

B2CTransportAutomation

Be an early applicant

$192-243k

Plus discretionary annual bonus program and equity incentive plan

Junior, Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Mountain View, CA

1001+ employees

B2CTransportAutomation

Company mission

To make it simpler and safer for people to move things and themselves around.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Hands on experience with designing or optimizing neural networks using Transformers and ConvNets
Experience on optimizing model efficiency for either large-scale training or inference
Able to learn new models and new frameworks
Track record of optimizing ML models

Desirable

Experience on low-level optimizations, on CPU/GPU/TPU
Experience on designing or evaluating or optimizing Transformers

What the job involves

This hybrid role will report to a Perception Research Manager
Lead the effort of model-platform co-optimization for Waymo's perception foundation model
Dive deep to training and inference efficiency on various platforms such as TPU, GPU, and CPU
Collaborate with other teams, such as perception, simulation, and ML infrastructure, to drive the model optimization
Be curious, innovative, and productive

Our take

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company that began as the Google self-driving car project in 2009. After initial development, it secured permits to deploy autonomous ride-hailing services in cities including Phoenix and San Francisco, but has recently hit a major bump in the road with safety concerns that resulted in a recall of over 400 self-driving cars.

With the autonomous driving industry already besieged by setbacks and public distrust, this development does Waymo no favours. That said, as an industry leader there remains the possibility it will see out the storm, but massive attention will need to be given to rebuilding trust with consumers if this is to be the case.

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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Led by a woman

Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

-1% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.7)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Aug 2024

$5.6bn

SERIES C

Jun 2021

$2.5bn

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Total funding: $11.1bn

Company values

Our customers are at the heart of everything we do
Safety is our foundation
We pioneer
Act with thoughtful urgency
Respect each other
Be responsible owners
We’re stronger together
Optionality creates opportunities
Always be learning
Celebrate progress

Company HQ

Mountain View, CA

Articles

Waymo’s new leadership & the future of self-driving cars

Waymo raises further $2.5bn for self-driving car project

Waymo is expanding its driverless program in Phoenix

A Quick Guide To Waymo Self-Driving Cars In Downtown Phoenix

Self-Driving Waymo Robotaxi in Collision with Bicyclist in San Francisco, Raising Safety Concerns

Waymo issues a voluntary recall on its self-driving vehicle software

Waymo AVs Recalled After Hitting Same Truck Two Separate Times Within Minutes

California's Self-Driving Robotaxi Dream May Be In Jeopardy

Google's Waymo Recalled Over 400 Self-Driving Cars After December's Collisions In Phoenix To Deploy OTA Fix, NHTSA Reveals

Waymo’s application to expand California robotaxi operations paused by regulators

Leadership

Dmitri Dolgov

(Co-CEO, not founder)

Former CTO of the company. After a PhD at the University of Michigan, they worked as a Stanford Postdoctoral Researcher before moving to the Toyota Research Institute. They also spent 8 years at Google as a Software Engineer.

Tekedra N. Mawakana

(Co-CEO, not founder)

Has worked at Waymo since 2017, as Global Head of Policy then CXO then COO before becoming Co-CEO. They are on the Board of Advisors at Operator Collective, Board of Directors at Intuit, and an Advisor for Boom Supersonic.

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