Staff Tech Lead Manager, Machine Learning, Simulator Evaluation

Waymo · Simulation (7XW)

Location: Mountain View, California, United States; San Francisco, California, United States.
Metro: San Francisco Bay Area
Workplace: Hybrid
Level: Staff+
Type: Unspecified
Pay: $251K–$310K/yr (estimated from posting text)
Posted: 1 month ago
Source: Greenhouse

What the posting covers

About the company

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…

About the Role

Waymo’s simulator is one of the most complex virtual environments ever built, blending deterministic logic, physical dynamics, and state-of-the-art Generative AI to create a training ground for the Waymo Driver. Within this cutting-edge ecosystem, the…

You will

Lead a top-tier applied ML team focused on building eval frameworks, infrastructure, and AI-powered tooling for World Model understanding and evaluation. Drive technical direction, and provide technical inputs and guidance to the team. Architect ML-driven…

You have

Degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience 3+ years of hands-on technical leadership experience, directly managing and guiding high-performing engineering teams of 5-10 people 7+ years…

We Prefer

M.S. or PhD. in Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, or a related quantitative field. A proven track record of training and/or evaluating large-scale generative models (e.g., reinforcement learning, diffusion, world models, 3D generative models, or…

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