Perception ML Engineer - Active Learning & Data Pipelines

Waymo; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual bonus

Equity incentive plan

Generous company benefits

Job summary

Waymo is seeking a Perception Machine Learning Engineer to build data-driven perception systems for autonomous driving. You will design and scale data pipelines from fleet sensor data, apply active learning to continually improve models, and develop robust evaluation methods to ensure real-world performance.

The role emphasizes collaboration with researchers and operations teams in a hybrid setting. The ideal candidate has 3+ years in ML/Computer Vision, strong Python and ML framework skills,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Machine Learning, Robotics, or Computer Science.
• 3+ years of professional ML/Computer Vision experience.
• Hands-on experience applying active learning in production environments.
• Strong Python and ML framework skills; building large-scale data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Architect and scale data pipelines to mine, ingest, and manage sensor data at scale.
• Deploy active learning to continually improve models with informative data.
• Develop methods to evaluate real-world model performance and detect regressions.
• Lead data curation strategies to minimize dataset size while maximizing model accuracy.

Skills

Active learning

Python

Machine learning

Computer vision

Data-driven

Education

Bachelor's degree in Machine Learning/Robotics/CS

Tools

PyTorch

JAX

C++

Job description

Waymo is seeking a Perception Machine Learning Engineer to build data-driven perception systems for autonomous driving. You will design and scale data pipelines from fleet sensor data, apply active learning to continually improve models, and develop robust evaluation methods to ensure real-world performance.

The role emphasizes collaboration with researchers and operations teams in a hybrid setting. The ideal candidate has 3+ years in ML/Computer Vision, strong Python and ML framework skills,