Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Driving Behaviors
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.
This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to an Engineering Manager.
Responsibilities
- Lead ML model development end-to-end for safety critical driving behaviors to evaluate and enhance the performance, safety and scalability of our self-driving system
- Design experiments and assess results to make clear data-driven decisions
- Find new ways to gather the required data needed to improve our models and improve data quality
- Communicate benefits and limitations of new models and metrics to partner teams
- Integrate and deploy metrics and models on fleet-wide data
- Be able to operate on both tactical and strategic timescales
Requirements
- 5+ years ML modeling experience in production environments at large scale
- Solid understanding of physics, geometry, and dynamics
- Proficiency in C++ and Python
- Ability to learn and utilize new frameworks quickly, employing AI tools or otherwise
- Proven ability to work cross functionally with both Product and Engineering stakeholders
Qualifications
- Experience working with ML models for autonomous systems
- Proficiency in SQL
Pay
Salary Range $213,000—$263,000 USD
Benefits
- Top-notch medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Mental wellness support, gym membership, and special wellness programs
- Competitive compensation, bonus opportunities, equity, and employee discounts
- Flexibility to work from another location for four weeks per year
- Paid time off, bereavement, sick, and parental leave
- 26 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents and 18 weeks for non-birthing parents
- Education reimbursement, personal and professional development, mentorship
- Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) and volunteer time off
- Access to Google offices, cafes, wellness centers, massages, and at-home fitness/cooking classes