Software Engineer, Waymo

• BS degree in Computer Science or a similar discipline, or an equivalent amount of deep learning experience
• 3+ years of industry or research experience with Large Language Models (LLM), Vision Language Models (VLM) or Computer Vision
• 3+ years experience with Python
• Hands-on experience with deep learning frameworks such as Jax, PyTorch, Tensorflow

Desirable

• The Perception Scene Semantics team is responsible for developing ML models for scene understanding around construction, emergency scenes, mapless driving and world changes
• The team works on the end to end ML pipeline from data mining, labeling, training onboard / offboard models, and deployment
• We need someone with strong ML experience to drive the architecture upgrades and product feature development
• In this hybrid role, you will report to a Technical Lead Manager within Semantics
• Develop and deploy deep learning models, including vision language models (VLMs) and Large Language Models (LLMs), multi-modal sensor fusion architectures for scene understanding
• Develop data mining, labeling, training and eval pipelines to support the onboard development
• Collaborate and work in partnership with research teams across Alphabet
• Design large-scale foundation models trained on our vast data