Senior Machine Learning Software Engineer, Waymo
$192-243k
+ Discretionary annual bonus program and equity incentive plan
Autonomous driving technology
Open for applications
Autonomous driving technology
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$192-243k
+ Discretionary annual bonus program and equity incentive plan
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make it simpler and safer for people to move things and themselves around.
Role
Who you are
- PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Statistics, Physics, Math or another quantitative area, or equivalent work experience
- 2+ years of experience building productionized ML models
- Strong coding and design skills: comfort building production systems (Python / C++)
- Strong background and experience in applied Deep Learning
- A strong track record in improving model quality
Desirable
- 4+ years of experience building productionized ML models
- Experience in reinforcement learning, transfer learning, and/or multi-task learning
- Experience with large scale data and models
What the job involves
- We are looking for researchers and software engineers who are passionate about developing production grade machine learning systems for our autonomous vehicles and have an incessant drive to improve the performance of our technology stack
- Report into the TLM for the Learned Metrics Team
- Develop and improve ML models that assess our autonomous vehicle's behavior
- Develop ML infrastructure to support robust and performant models
- Collaborate across teams to bring state-of-the-art to production
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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
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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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