ML Engineer, Foundation Model Recipes

Location: Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; New York, NY, USA

Department: AI Foundations (7SJ)

The mission of the Waymo AI Foundations team is to develop machine learning solutions addressing open problems in autonomous driving, towards the goal of safely operating Waymo vehicles in dozens of cities and under all driving conditions. As part of our work, we also initiate and foster collaborations with other research teams in Alphabet. AI Foundations areas that we are currently focusing on include reinforcement learning, learning from demonstration, generative modeling, Bayesian inference, hierarchical learning, and robust evaluation.

In this hybrid role, you will report to a Senior Research Scientist.

You will:

• Develop and extend cutting-edge research in robotics and machine learning to advance state-of-the-art recipes for advancing the quality, safety, and realism of embodied AI agents
• Partner within and across organizations to land disruptive and innovative tech in production
• Work with a variety of state-of-the-art Foundation Models
• Drive model development via data, eval, and systems
• Implement and extend large large scale data and evaluation pipeline

You have:

• Masters degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
• Proficiency in Python
• Familiarity with one of the modern deep learning frameworks (e.g. Pytorch, JAX, Tensorflow)
• Prior work in an industrial or research setting developing recipes for ML models

We prefer:

• Track record of publications in top-tier conferences or leading open source projects in the related fields
• Strong hands-on SWE skills, able to design, implement, and extend large distributed pipelines
• Experience in AV planning and related research
• Experience in labeling and curating data for ML eval and training

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

Health, dental, vision, life, disability insuranceRetirement Benefits: 401(k) with company matchPaid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employmentSick Time: 40 hours/year (statutory, where applicable); 5 days/event (discretionary)Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeksBaby Bonding Leave: 18 weeksHolidays: 13 paid days per year