Software Engineer, Waymo
Foundation Model Data Infrastructure
$158-200k
Office located in Mountain View, CA
Autonomous driving technology
Open for applications
Autonomous driving technology
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$158-200k
Office located in Mountain View, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make it simpler and safer for people to move things and themselves around.
Role
Who you are
- Outstanding programming skills in C++, or Python
- Hands-on experience building large-scale data processing and retrieval systems and pipelines: Apache Spark, Apache Beam, Google Cloud Dataflow, AWS Data Pipeline, or Faiss
- 3+ years of experience in ML data engineering, including data pipelines, data curation, and data balancing
- 3+ years of experience working in integrated settings to support data users and collaborating with infrastructure partners; customer-oriented mindset
- MS and 1+ years of industrial experience, or equivalent
What the job involves
- The Perception team at Waymo is at the heart of our Autonomous Vehicles with a mission to perceive and represent everything from pedestrians to vehicles to long-tail phenomena
- Perception Data Primary is the core function that owns the infrastructure and tools to understand vast amounts of Waymo driving data, curate datasets, ensure data availability and quality, and accelerate development of Perception and the Waymo driver
- This spans areas from performance onboard real-time systems to scalable systems that deliver data to power Perception's machine learning (ML) models, diverse ML task evaluation, foundational model development, and commercialization
- In this hybrid role you will report to a Software Engineering Manager
- Develop infrastructure and frameworks for generating reliable, high quality data for Perception foundation model development at the tens of petabyte scale
- Deploy and maintain end-to-end data pipelines that deliver the foundation model data
- Curate and deliver data sets, for both nominal and rare instances, that support the diverse ML tasks for Perception foundation models
- Collaborate with foundation model, Perception evaluation, and ML infrastructure teams to integrate data generation into model training and evaluation frameworks
- Collaborate with production teams to deploy foundation models in deployment settings
- Responsible for infrastructure reliability, data availability, and data quality
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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Company Specialist
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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
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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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