Senior ML Engineer - Perception LLM/VLM, Equity & Bonus

Waymo; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 204,000 - 259,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus program

Equity incentive plan

Generous company benefits

Job summary

A leading autonomous vehicle technology company located in Mountain View, California, is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to design and optimize pre-training pipelines for VLM foundation models. Ideal candidates will have over 5 years of experience in machine learning, strong proficiency in Python, and hands-on experience with model training and evaluation. Competitive salary range is between $204,000 and $259,000, along with benefits such as an annual bonus program and equity incentives.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Machine Learning, focused on large-scale model development.
• Proven expertise in LLM/VLM pre-training, continual learning with large scale datasets.
• Hands-on experience with model training, evaluation, and deployment in a production environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize large-scale continual pre-training pipelines for VLM foundation models.
• Conduct research on novel pre-training techniques, integrating multimodal data streams into models.
• Develop and evaluate metrics for performance and transferability of foundation models.

Skills

Machine Learning

Large-scale model development

Python

Deep learning frameworks

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field

Tools

Jax

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Job description

A leading autonomous vehicle technology company located in Mountain View, California, is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to design and optimize pre-training pipelines for VLM foundation models. Ideal candidates will have over 5 years of experience in machine learning, strong proficiency in Python, and hands-on experience with model training and evaluation. Competitive salary range is between $204,000 and $259,000, along with benefits such as an annual bonus program and equity incentives.