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Senior Software Engineer, Perception, VLM Foundation

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Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. In this role, you will work on vision language models (VLMs) and large language models (LLMs) focusing on model pre-training, fine-tuning, and post-training for autonomous driving applications.

Responsibilities:

• Tackle long-tail scenarios and develop evaluation framework to support launching vision language models (VLMs) and large language models (LLMs)

• Explore leveraging VLM's world knowledge and reasoning capabilities to improve various driving tasks

• Work on different phases of model development from data mining, training and eval, and deploy the models on the autonomous vehicles

• Collaborate and work in partnership with research teams across Alphabet

Qualifications:

Required:

• BS degree in Computer Science or a similar discipline, or an equivalent amount of deep learning experience

• 6+ years of industry or research experience with deep Learning, VLM/LLMs, and/or computer vision

• 6+ years of experience with Python

• Hands-on experience with deep learning frameworks such as Jax, PyTorch, Tensorflow

Preferred:

• Experience with training large VLM/LLMs with distributed training

• Experience with model optimization

• Experience of modeling with real-world sensor data (cameras, LIDAR, radars)

• Experience with C++

Company:

Waymo is a mobility technology company that improves transportation by developing self-driving solutions for travelers and daily commuters. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet. Founded in 2009, the company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage. Waymo has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.

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