Machine Learning Engineer, Labeled Data

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.

The Labeling Platform Team creates data solutions to power groundbreaking research and development during all stages of model training: pretraining, supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, etc. The labeled data that the team produces is used to directly enhance and evaluate the Waymo Driver as well as the vast variety of models that power other parts of the business.

You Will:

• Build a Data Flywheel: Design and implement systems that continuously improve the Waymo Driver. This involves creating a feedback loop where labeled data not only trains models but also informs the next generation of data collection and labeling, leading to iterative improvements in quality and efficiency.
• Collaborate with ML practitioners on models for perception, behavior prediction and planner  to understand their models and help them define data requirement,
• Develop automation to both produce the labels and/or find problematic label issues within the already produced labeled datasets.
• Build large scale distributed systems that index and serve the large amount of labeled data to model training pipelines.

You Have:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, and 2+ years equivalent experience
• Experience in producing and managing large scale ML training datasets.
• ML Model development experience
• Experience in programming C++ or Python.

We Prefer:

• Experience in developing human + ML interaction schemes to boost productivity and quality of label generation.
• Experiencing programming using Typescript.
• Hands-on experience with LLM/GenAI-based products.
• Experience using open source computer vision models such as YOLO and SAM.

This role reports to an Engineering Manager

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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.