Principal Software Engineer, Waymo

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
• 10+ years of experience in ML model development, and you have 4+ years experience with large-scale vision, video, or multi-modal foundation model development and their integration in end-to-end models
• 6+ years of experience in ML-driven production systems that develops models with large-scale data, training, evaluation, and deployment
• 6+ years of experience in a technical leadership role leading technical teams and setting technical directions in large ML Engineering organizations
• 3+ years of experience with computer vision models, or LLMs, or vision language models
• Proficiency in C++, Python, and modern deep learning toolkits like PyTorch or JAX
• Passion to lead engineering excellence and efficient model development through flywheel automation, while having direct technical experience in model quality development to achieve our goals

Desirable

• You will report to our Director of Engineering in our Perception Organization
• Develop sensor-fusion foundation models for the Waymo Driver which can run on the car and provide a temporal-spatial understanding of the surrounding environment
• Solve large-scale, multi-stage training of sensor fusion foundation models with millions of miles of driving data under limited labeling budget partnering with Waymo infrastructure teams
• Develop solutions for frequently updating the models and minimizing time-to-impact from observing to addressing an issue
• Optimize end-to-end latency from model training/update to model deployment
• Drive and accelerate collaborations between Perception teams, between Perception and AI Foundation teams, and partner with the teams working on Planning, Simulation and seek collaboration with Alphabet's research teams