Machine Learning Engineer for Autonomous Vehicles - Remote

Overview

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo One, a fully autonomous ride-hailing service, and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over one million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving tens of millions of miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 13+ U.S. states.

In Short

• 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.

Requirements

• 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

Benefits

• Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.