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Tech Lead, Machine Learning Engineer, Perception

Waymo

$238,000 - $302,000
Dec 9, 2025
Mountain View, CA, US • CA, US • Remote, US • San Francisco, CA, US • CA, US • Remote, US
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Waymo is looking to improve its autonomous driving technology by enhancing the Perception team's system, which learns the spatial-temporal representation and semantic meanings of the surrounding environment of the self-driving car.

Requirements

  • Experience with Python
  • Experience with ML frameworks like PyTorch or JAX
  • 7+ years experience in Machine Learning and/or Computer Vision
  • Bachelors in Computer Science or a similar discipline, or an equivalent amount of deep learning experience
  • MS or PhD Degree in Machine Learning, Robotics, Computer Science or a similar discipline
  • Experience with C++
  • Publications at top-tier conferences like CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICLR, ICML, ICRA, IROS, RSS, NeurIPS, AAAI, IJCV, PAMI

Responsibilities

  • Own the panoptic segmentation task (instance segmentation and semantic segmentation), take responsibility for task scaling and task performance, take ownership of aligning instance segmentation and object detection/tracking (in particular in an end-to-end architecture), create ML methods and recipes to scale and improve tasks
  • Collaborate with ML engineering/research teams to develop efficient model architectures for representing occupancy and panoptic segmentation, and train and deploy such models with a focus on using large pre-trained models
  • Collaborate with partner teams to establish efficient human and machine labeling workflows
  • Analyze panoptic segmentation issues in real-world application, identify issues and root causes, advise or develop short- and long-term solutions.
  • Develop and maintain metrics for 4D (3D + time) instance segmentation and semantic segmentation

Other

  • Bachelors in Computer Science or a similar discipline, or an equivalent amount of deep learning experience
  • 7+ years experience in Machine Learning and/or Computer Vision
  • MS or PhD Degree in Machine Learning, Robotics, Computer Science or a similar discipline
  • Travel requirements not specified
  • Clearance requirements not specified