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Overview
Waymo is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to lead the development of evaluation approaches for assessing the realism of multimodal world models in autonomous driving simulations. 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.
What you'll do
- •Lead the design, development and deployment of cutting-edge evaluation approaches to assess realism of state-of-the-art multimodal world models and generative systems for simulation use cases at Waymo.
- •Architect and implement robust and scalable machine learning pipelines for tuning, evaluating, and deploying large-scale discriminator models for the purposes of simulator realism evaluation.
- •Evaluate open-source and production-ready video generation techniques that measure realism (e.g. temporal stability, multi-modal consistency, geometric discrepancy, condition following, etc.).
- •Apply vision language models to evaluate semantic understanding and controllability across our world simulation products.
- •Collaborate with research teams across Waymo and Alphabet to integrate advancements in 4D world modeling and generative AI into production systems.
- •Mentor engineers on the team and provide technical guidance on architecture and execution.
Conditions
- •The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is $213,000 — $263,000 USD.
- •Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level.
- •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.