Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Infra), Driver Understanding and Evaluation
AI summary of the role
This role builds and operates scalable ML infrastructure for the Driver Understanding and Evaluation team at Waymo, focusing on training and fine-tuning large-scale models to evaluate driving behaviors.
What you’ll do
- Build scalable systems for training and fine-tuning large-scale models to evaluate interesting driving behaviors.
- Work at the intersection of data engineering, model development, and simulation.
- Own large, complex systems, driving architectures that meet technical and business objectives.
- Design and scale large distributed systems covering the ML lifecycle, supporting planet-scale dataset generation, model training, and evaluation.
What you’ll bring
- M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, AI, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years in machine learning infrastructure (developing, designing, scaling, training, deploying, optimizing large-scale ML systems).
- History of contributions to ML tooling and frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, Jax, Tensorflow, Ray).
- Strong expertise in distributed training techniques, including gradient sharding and optimization strategies for scaling large models.
Technologies
PyTorch · Jax · Tensorflow · Ray · distributed training · gradient sharding · ML accelerator profiling · simulation platforms
About Waymo
Builds the Waymo Driver autonomous driving stack and operates Waymo One robotaxi services, using large-scale real-world and simulated driving data to expand safely across cities.
Growth
Source and classification
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Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's 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’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. The DUE Machine Learning team will build and operate scalable machine learning and data systems, simulation workflow and insight tools, improve and speed up the evaluation and onboard developer
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Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's 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’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. The DUE Machine Learning team will build and operate scalable machine learning and data systems, simulation workflow and insight tools, improve and speed up the evaluation and onboard developer journeys. It will combine expert human judgements and advanced machine learning models to deliver training and evaluation data for hundreds of metrics and components that make up the Waymo driver. We are looking for researchers and software engineers who are passionate about developing machine learning techniques for the Evaluation systems on our autonomous vehicles, and have an incessant drive to improve the performance of our technology stack. You will: Build scalable systems for training and fi [... source excerpt omitted ...] ide guidance on architectural decisions and technical directions. Own large, complex systems, driving architectures that meet technical and business objectives. Contribute to the production and optimization of machine learning models aiming to assess Waymo’s expansive fleet of vehicles that cumulatively travel millions of miles. Design and scale large distributed systems covering the ML lifecycle, supporting planet-scale dataset generation, model training, and evaluation. Collaborate cross-functionally to derive performance and system-level requirements for large ML systems. Translate product/business goals into measurable technical deliverables, ensuring system component alignm [... source excerpt omitted ...] aymo 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. Salary Range $213,000—$263,000 USD
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