Machine Learning Engineer Perception LLM/VLM (PhD, New Grad)

What this role involves

Waymo is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer for the Perception team to design and optimize pre-training pipelines for vision-language models in autonomous driving. The role involves research on novel pre-training techniques, model evaluation, and integration into the Waymo Driver. Requires expertise in LLM/VLM, large-scale data, and deep learning frameworks.

Skills this posting asks for

• machine learning
• large-scale model development
• llm
• vlm
• foundation models
• pretraining
• continual learning
• python
• jax
• tensorflow
• pytorch
• model training
• model evaluation
• model deployment
• fine-tuning
• autonomous driving
• robotics
• data curation
• multimodal datasets
• perception
• spatial-temporal representation
• sensors
• computer vision
• research

Requirements

• 5 years of experience
• Level: junior

From the employer’s posting

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 acce…