MS/PhD Onboard RL Engineer for Autonomous Driving

Waymo LLC; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 117,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Housing/relocation bonus

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Free meals onsite

Job summary

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company; this hybrid onsite internship offers opportunities to work on the Onboard developer platform. You will extend RL infrastructure and run experiments as part of a team building the Waymo Driver, a world-class autonomous system.

We seek Master’s or PhD students in ML/software engineering with hands-on coding experience and a strong interest in reinforcement learning.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a Master's or PhD in software engineering, ML, or related field.
• Fundamental understanding of machine learning and reinforcement learning.
• 2+ years of project experience involving coding and real results.

Responsibilities

• Understand the problem current LPM model is trying to solve and its details.
• Extend current reinforcement learning infrastructure and conduct experiments on our RL system; tune parameters and compare results.
• Identify promising new RL technologies and apply them to Waymo problems.

Skills

Fundamental ML understanding

Reinforcement learning knowledge

Coding experience

Education

Master's or PhD in software engineering, ML, or related field

Job description

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company; this hybrid onsite internship offers opportunities to work on the Onboard developer platform. You will extend RL infrastructure and run experiments as part of a team building the Waymo Driver, a world-class autonomous system.

We seek Master’s or PhD students in ML/software engineering with hands-on coding experience and a strong interest in reinforcement learning.