Principal Software Engineer, Perception Pretraining

What this role involves

Waymo seeks a Principal Software Engineer for Perception Pretraining to develop sensor-fusion foundation models for autonomous driving. The role involves large-scale multi-stage training, model updates, and collaboration across teams. Requires 10+ years of ML experience with expertise in vision, video, or multi-modal foundation models.

Skills this posting asks for

• c++
• python
• pytorch
• jax
• machine learning
• deep learning
• computer vision
• large-scale vision
• video models
• multi-modal models
• foundation models
• model development
• production systems
• technical leadership
• llm
• vision language models
• sensor fusion
• model training
• model deployment
• end-to-end models
• model distillation
• compute optimization
• multi-modal llm pretraining
• infrastructure

Requirements

• 10 years of experience
• Level: principal
• Remote policy: hybrid

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…