About the Role
The Driver Understanding and Evaluation team at Waymo develops a rich understanding of Waymo Driver's behavior. The learned metrics team is a strategic bet to use machine learning to ensure we can scale to meet Waymo's goals. We build and operate large-scale machine learning and data systems, simulation workflows, and insight tools. 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.
Responsibilities
- Report into the TLM for the Learned Metrics Team
- Develop ML models that assess our autonomous vehicle's behavior.
- Develop ML infrastructure to support performant models.
- Collaborate across teams to bring state-of-the-art to production.
Requirements
- BS in Computer Science, Robotics, Statistics, Physics, Math or another quantitative area, or equivalent work experience
- 5+ years of experience building productionized ML models
- Comfort building production systems (Python / C++)
- Background in applied Deep Learning
- A track record in improving model quality
Skills
- Python
- C++
- Deep Learning
- reinforcement learning
- transfer learning
- large scale data
- large scale models
Location
- US
Work Type
- hybrid
- full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years of experience building productionized ML models
- 8+ years of experience building productionized ML models
Education Level
- BS in Computer Science, Robotics, Statistics, Physics, Math or another quantitative area, or equivalent work experience
Salary/Compensations
- $251,000—$310,000 USD
Benefits
- discretionary annual bonus program
- equity incentive plan
- generous Company benefits program
About the Company
- 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.
