Senior ML Engineer - AV Simulation & Foundation Models

Waymo; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 123,000 - 129,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual bonus

Equity incentive plan

Generous benefits

Job summary

Waymo, the world leader in autonomous driving, has opened a hybrid Research Engineer position in London to advance ultra-realistic AV simulations using foundation models. You will design experiments, develop metrics for realism, train and evaluate large models, integrate them into the simulator, and help hire outstanding researchers while collaborating with Waymo Oxford teams.

The role reports to an Engineering Manager and offers the opportunity to push the frontiers of research-to-production

Qualifications

• 4+ years experience in applied Deep Learning.
• 4+ years coding and design skills.
• Experience solving complex production problems using state-of-the-art ML techniques.
• Experience taking research to production.
• Expertise in Data Analysis or Data Science.

Responsibilities

• Be part of a world class research engineering team to grow the state-of-the-art of ultra realistic AV simulations using foundation models.
• Collaborate with teams in Waymo Oxford to use large models to improve sim realism.
• Design experiments that push the frontiers of AV simulations.
• Develop metrics that measure the realism of simulated worlds.
• Train and evaluate large models and integrate them into the simulator and its downstream applications.
• Help hire outstanding research engineers from diverse backgrounds.
• Be a part of a collaborative research engineering team that takes research ideas and productionizes them.

Skills

Deep Learning

Coding

Production ML

Research to production

Data Analysis

Job description

Waymo, the world leader in autonomous driving, has opened a hybrid Research Engineer position in London to advance ultra-realistic AV simulations using foundation models. You will design experiments, develop metrics for realism, train and evaluate large models, integrate them into the simulator, and help hire outstanding researchers while collaborating with Waymo Oxford teams.

The role reports to an Engineering Manager and offers the opportunity to push the frontiers of research-to-production