Software Engineer, Waymo

LLM/VLM

$158-200k

+ Discretionary annual bonus program and equity incentive plan

Python
Tensorflow
C++
PyTorch
Mid and Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Mountain View, CA

Waymo

Autonomous driving technology

Open for applications

Waymo

Autonomous driving technology

1001+ employees

B2CTransportAutomation

Open for applications

$158-200k

+ Discretionary annual bonus program and equity incentive plan

Python
Tensorflow
C++
PyTorch
Mid and Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Mountain View, CA

1001+ employees

B2CTransportAutomation

Company mission

To make it simpler and safer for people to move things and themselves around.

Role

Who you are

  • BS degree in Computer Science or a similar discipline, or an equivalent amount of deep learning experience
  • 3+ years experience
  • Experience with Large Language Models (LLM) or Vision Language Models (VLM)
  • Experience with Python
  • Hands-on experience with deep learning frameworks such as Jax, PyTorch, Tensorflow

Desirable

  • PhD degree in Computer Science or a similar discipline, or an equivalent amount of deep learning experience
  • Publications on top-tier conferences like CVPR/ICCV/ECCV/ICLR/ICML/NeurIPS/ICLR/AAAI/IJCV/PAMI
  • Github repositories or Tech Blogs of LLMs/ VLMs
  • Experience with C++

What the job involves

  • The Perception Team at Waymo builds the system that "sees" the world around the self-driving car
  • We conduct novel research to address real-world perception problems and collaborate with research teams at Alphabet
  • Here at Waymo, we have access to millions of miles of driving data from a diverse set of sensors, enabling researchers like you to develop complex models and techniques at scale
  • Improvements deployed to our system can immediately help our large fleet of autonomous vehicles
  • Develop and deploy deep learning models, including vision language models (VLMs) and Large Language Models (LLMs)
  • Develop data mining, labeling, training and eval pipelines to support the onboard development
  • Collaborate and work in partnership with research teams across Alphabet

Our take

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company that began as the Google self-driving car project in 2009. After initial development, it secured permits to deploy autonomous ride-hailing services in cities including Phoenix and San Francisco, but has recently hit a major bump in the road with safety concerns that resulted in a recall of over 400 self-driving cars.

With the autonomous driving industry already besieged by setbacks and public distrust, this development does Waymo no favours. That said, as an industry leader there remains the possibility it will see out the storm, but massive attention will need to be given to rebuilding trust with consumers if this is to be the case.

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Insights

Led by a woman
Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

-1% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Jun 2021

$2.5bn

GROWTH EQUITY VC

May 2020

$750m

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Total funding: $5.5bn

Company values

  • Our customers are at the heart of everything we do
  • Safety is our foundation
  • We pioneer
  • Act with thoughtful urgency
  • Respect each other
  • Be responsible owners
  • We’re stronger together
  • Optionality creates opportunities
  • Always be learning
  • Celebrate progress

Company HQ

Mountain View, CA

Leadership

Dmitri Dolgov

(Co-CEO, not founder)

Former CTO of the company. After a PhD at the University of Michigan, they worked as a Stanford Postdoctoral Researcher before moving to the Toyota Research Institute. They also spent 8 years at Google as a Software Engineer.

Tekedra N. Mawakana

(Co-CEO, not founder)

Has worked at Waymo since 2017, as Global Head of Policy then CXO then COO before becoming Co-CEO. They are on the Board of Advisors at Operator Collective, Board of Directors at Intuit, and an Advisor for Boom Supersonic.

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