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- Location
- San Francisco, California, United States Mountain View, California, United States
- Work arrangement
- On-site
- Employment
- Full-time
- Experience
- 5+ years experience in Machine Learning and/or Computer Vision
- Education
- MS or PhD in Computer Science or a similar discipline, or an equivalent amount of deep learning experience
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Role Summary
The Staff Tech Lead, Perception, Pre-training & Distillation develops pre-trained spatio-temporal foundation models for autonomous driving perception. The role focuses on training and preparing models for production use, developing pre-training and distillation approaches, and evaluating and improving the data and representations used by those models.
What You'll Do
- Train multi-billion-parameter spatio-temporal foundation models on large datasets.
- Develop self-supervised learning approaches, including image and video encoders, 3D point-cloud encoders, spatio-temporal reconstruction...
- Develop multi-teacher distillation recipes.
- Evaluate latent representations and collaborate with the post-training team on the representations needed for downstream tasks.
- Develop methods to curate and use diverse datasets in training.
- Contribute to technical roadmaps.
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View full postingQualifications
MS or PhD in Computer Science or a similar discipline, or equivalent deep learning experience; 5+ years of experience in Machine Learning and/or Computer Vision; fluent in Python; in-depth experience with PyTorch or JAX.
Preferred
- Publications at top-tier conferences like CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICLR, ICML, ICRA, RSS, NeurIPS, AAAI, IJCV, PAMI
- Experience with C++
- Experience with real-time system design
Original job description
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Original job description
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Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.
The Perception team builds the system which learns the spatial-temporal representation and their semantic meanings of the surrounding environment of the self-driving car, i.e., the system that “perceives” the world around the car. We work jointly with downstream teams on the optimization and integration into the Waymo Driver. We conduct our own research to address real-world problems and collaborate with research teams at Alphabet. We have access to millions of miles of driving data from a diverse set of sensors, enabling engineers like you to (1) develop methods for efficiently learning from large scale real-world data, to (2) develop models and model training at scale, to (3) analyze real-world behavior and develop systems for handling the complexities of interacting with the real-world
In this role you will report to a Sr Staff Technical Lead Manager.
You will:
- Train multi-billion parameter spatio-temporal foundation models on multi-billion frame data sets.
- Deliver pre-trained models for production usage, ideally for usage in real-time systems.
- Develop self-supervised learning, including image/video encoder, 3D point cloud encoder, spatio-temporal reconstruction or future prediction, and vision-language contrastive learning.
- Develop multi-teacher distillation recipes.
- Develop methods to understand and evaluate the quality of latent representations from pre-training. Collaborate with the post-training team to ensure pre-training delivers the world knowledge representation needed for the multitude of post-training tasks.
- Develop methods to curate and effectively use diverse datasets in training.
- Be a key contributor to technical roadmaps.
You have:
- MS or PhD in Computer Science or a similar discipline, or an equivalent amount of deep learning experience
- 5+ years experience in Machine Learning and/or Computer Vision
- Fluent in Python
- In-depth experience with ML frameworks like PyTorch or JAX
We Prefer:
- Publications at top-tier conferences like CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICLR, ICML, ICRA, RSS, NeurIPS, AAAI, IJCV, PAMI
- Experience with C++
- Experience with real-time system design
The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process.
Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.
About the company
Waymo
Large Enterprise
Waymo is a leading autonomous driving technology company, originally a part of Google's parent company Alphabet Inc. Established in 2009, Waymo focuses on developing self-driving cars and innovative transportation solutions designed to enhance mobility and safety on the roads. By employing advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms, the company aims to revolutionize personal and shared transportation, making it more accessible and efficient. Waymo's efforts contribute significantly to the future of autonomous vehicles and the ongoing shift towards smart transportation systems.