Perception Model Data Specialist

3 days ago


Mountain View, California, United States Waymo Full time

About Us: Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company that aims to revolutionize the transportation industry. With a strong focus on safety and innovation, we have made significant strides in developing the Waymo Driver, which has provided over one million rider-only trips and tens of millions of miles of public roads. Our team is passionate about creating a world where transportation is safe, efficient, and accessible to all.

Job Title: Large-Scale Data Engineer

Job Description: We are seeking a highly skilled Large-Scale Data Engineer to join our Perception team at Waymo. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for developing infrastructure and frameworks for generating reliable, high-quality data for Perception foundation model development at the tens of petabyte scale. Your expertise in large-scale data processing and retrieval systems will enable us to deliver end-to-end data pipelines that support diverse ML tasks for Perception foundation models.

Responsibilities: Develop infrastructure and frameworks for generating reliable, high-quality data for Perception foundation model development Deploy and maintain end-to-end data pipelines that deliver the foundation model data Currate and deliver data sets, for both nominal and rare instances, that support the diverse ML tasks for Perception foundation models Collaborate with foundation model, Perception evaluation, and ML infrastructure teams to integrate data generation into model training and evaluation frameworks Collaborate with production teams to deploy foundation models in deployment settings Ensure infrastructure reliability, data availability, and data quality

Requirements: Outstanding programming skills in C++ or Python Hands-on experience building large-scale data processing and retrieval systems and pipelines: Apache Spark, Apache Beam, Google Cloud Dataflow, AWS Data Pipeline, or Faiss 3+ years of experience in ML data engineering, including data pipelines, data curation, and data balancing 3+ years of experience working in integrated settings to support data users and collaborating with our infrastructure partners; customer-oriented mindset MS and 1+ years of industrial experience, or equivalent Estimated salary range: $158,000-$200,000 USD

Benefits: Waymo employees are eligible to participate in the discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.



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