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Senior Machine Learning Software Engineer

Waymo
New York, NY Full Time
POSTED ON 1/31/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/30/2025

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.

The Driver Understanding and Evaluation team at Waymo develops a rich understanding of Waymo Driver's behavior. With over 1 million driverless miles per week, it is critical that Waymo can understand and assess the behavior of all its vehicles - both in the field and in simulation - with automated algorithms. The learned metrics team is a strategic bet to use machine learning to ensure we can scale to meet Waymo's goals. We collaborate across teams to bring ML to production systems and build what is Waymo's reward function. We build and operate large-scale machine learning and data systems, simulation workflows, and insight tools. We combine expert human judgements and advanced machine learning models to deliver training and evaluation data for the Waymo driver. We are looking for researchers and software engineers who are passionate about developing production grade machine learning systems for our autonomous vehicles and have an incessant drive to improve the performance of our technology stack.

In this role, you will :

  • 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.

You have :

  • 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
  • We prefer :

  • 4 years of experience building productionized ML models
  • Experience in reinforcement learning, transfer learning, and / or multi-task learning.
  • Experience with large scale data and models
  • Li-Hybrid

    The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process.

    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.

    Salary Range

    192,000 — $243,000 USD

    Salary : $192,000 - $243,000

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