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Waymo • Kirkland, Washington, United States
Role & seniority: Senior leadership role overseeing ML engineers; leads and builds a team focused on reliable sensing anomaly detection and calibration (requires 4+ years of prior people management; 6+ years ML robotics experience).
Stack/tools: Real-time ML for robotics; sensor modalities (LiDAR, radar, cameras); sensor data alignment/calibration; sensor health backend and log processing backend; data flywheel using Vision-Language Models (VLMs); early fusion multi-modal sensing; collaboration with perception, system engineering, evaluation, and Alphabet teams.
Lead and grow a team of ML engineers focused on sensing reliability, anomaly detection, and calibration.
Build and operate a data flywheel to auto-generate training data for rare sensor degradation events (via VLMs).
Own the end-to-end sensor validation stack and drive cross-team collaborations across perception, systems, evaluation, and Alphabet groups.
MS in CS, Robotics, Math, Physics, or equivalent experience.
6+ years designing, training, and deploying ML-driven real-time robotics systems.
4+ years leading technical teams and setting direction.
2+ years people management.
PhD in a related field.
Experience in robotics/autonomous systems or automotive industries.
Experience with LiDAR, radar, and camera sensor modalities; familiarity with rare/zero-shot detection.
Experience with early fusion multi-modal
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 at Waymo builds the system that "sees" the world around the self-driving car. We conduct novel research to address real-world perception problems and collaborate with research teams at Alphabet. Here at Waymo, we have access to millions of miles of driving data from a diverse set of sensors, enabling researchers like you to develop complex models and techniques at scale. Improvements deployed to our system can immediately advance our large fleet of autonomous vehicles.
Within Perception, the Sensor Health team's job is to make sure that sensors "just work" for the entire self-driving car software stack. We make sure that all sensors are properly calibrated and consistently monitored at all times. We process data from next-generation sensors on next-generation vehicle platforms and work closely with both hardware and software teams to provide the best possible sensor data from our sensors to our upstream customers. To this end, we develop sensor data alignment and calibration algorithms, a growing sensor health backend, and deploy our systems both into the Waymo Driver and our log processing backend. In this hybrid remote/in-office role, you will report to a Senior Staff TLM.