Technical Lead, Perception Simulation Realism

Posted 19 Days Ago
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Hiring Remotely in Mountain View, CA
Remote
272K-346K Annually
Senior level
Automotive
The Role
As a Technical Lead, you will develop Generative AI-driven solutions for perception simulation, focusing on machine learning algorithms and productization. You'll work on sensor data generation and contribute to large-scale software systems with a direct impact on Waymo's expansion efforts.
Summary Generated by Built In

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.

Our team has built a Simulation City (https://waymo.com/blog/2021/07/simulation-city/) that helps Waymo scale up to 10M+ autonomous miles and now we want to scale up 10x more! Our team will directly impact on Waymo business by faster ODD expansion and help scale to brand new geographies. We fuel faster growth for Waymo and push the state of the art in the field.


You will:

  • As a tech lead and machine learning mastermind, you will be the main contributor developing Generative AI-driven solutions for perception simulation
  • Work on the solutions and product landings by developing Deep Learning algorithms and productization
  • Be responsible for the next-level scope in Generative AI solutions for generating sensor data

You have:

  • M.S. in Computer Science (or related fields) with 10 years work experience
  • 5+ years experience in developing, optimizing, evaluating, and deploying ML algorithms into large-scale software systems.
  • Direct experience in Generative AI, including multi-modal foundation models and Diffusion models
  • Academic background and industry experience in one or more related fields: Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Computer Graphics & Rendering;

We Prefer:

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science (or related fields) and 7 years work experience;
  • 3+ years' experience in simulation, perception, autonomous driving, and robotics;
  • Strong background in perception related domains, such as transformer modeling, model scaling, self-supervised learning
  • Publications at top-tier conferences like CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICLR, ICML, ICRA, RSS, NeurIPS, AAAI, IJCV, PAMI

This role reports to an Engineering Director

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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

$272,000$346,000 USD

Top Skills

Deep Learning
Machine Learning
The Company
Mountain View, CA
2,359 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2009

What We Do

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to move around. With the Waymo Driver, we can improve the world’s mobility while saving thousands of lives.
Waymo reaches out to candidates from official channels only (e.g. directly from @waymo.com email addresses, or through our recruiters or sourcers who are noted as such on LinkedIn). We do not contact candidates about career opportunities through instant messaging apps like Telegram, email addresses from domains other than waymo.com (such as Gmail addresses), direct messages on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, or text messages. Visit waymo.com to check out our official job listings.

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