Principal ML Engineer, Multimodal Perception Pretraining

SupportFinity™; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 332,000 - 421,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus program

Equity incentive plan

Generous company benefits

Job summary

A leading autonomous driving technology firm in San Francisco is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for their Perception team. The role involves developing sensor-fusion foundation models that enhance the Waymo Driver's understanding of its environment, and collaborating across teams to optimize model performance. The ideal candidate has over 10 years in ML model development, with extensive experience in technical leadership and proficiency in C++ and Python. Attractive salary range and company benefits included.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in ML model development.
• 4+ years with large-scale vision or multi-modal foundation model development.
• 6+ years in ML-driven production systems.
• 6+ years in a technical leadership role.

Responsibilities

• Develop sensor-fusion foundation models for the Waymo Driver.
• Solve large-scale, multi-stage training of sensor fusion models.
• Develop solutions for frequently updating the models.
• Optimize end-to-end latency from model training to deployment.
• Drive collaborations between Perception and AI Foundation teams.

Skills

Machine Learning model development

C++ proficiency

Python proficiency

Deep learning toolkits (PyTorch, JAX)

Education

Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science or related field

Job description

A leading autonomous driving technology firm in San Francisco is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for their Perception team. The role involves developing sensor-fusion foundation models that enhance the Waymo Driver's understanding of its environment, and collaborating across teams to optimize model performance. The ideal candidate has over 10 years in ML model development, with extensive experience in technical leadership and proficiency in C++ and Python. Attractive salary range and company benefits included.