Senior Software Engineer, Waymo

• BS degree in Computer Science or a similar discipline, or an equivalent amount of deep learning experience
• 4+ years of industry or research experience with deep Learning, VLM/LLMs, and/or computer vision
• 4+ years of experience with Python
• Hands-on experience with deep learning frameworks such as Jax, PyTorch, Tensorflow

Desirable

• The Perception Vulnerable Road Users (VRU) Understanding team focuses on identifying, understanding, and representing VRU objects (pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists) and their interactions with other objects
• The team owns VRU perception signals and supports VRU applications across all product areas
• Our work improves key product metrics like safety, rider comfort, and cost
• We also define and execute the roadmap for VRU signals of onboard systems
• In this hybrid role, you will report to the Technical Lead Manager of Semantics Understanding
• Develop and deploy deep learning models, including vision language models (VLMs) and Large Language Models (LLMs) for human understanding applications across all product areas
• Define and execute the roadmap of human understanding applications
• Develop data mining, labeling, training and eval pipelines to support the onboard development
• Collaborate and work in partnership with research teams across Alphabet