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Director of AI Foundations, Model Evaluation & Integration

Waymo LLCMountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA
Hybrid Full-time $332K/yr - $421K/yr

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You will:Oversee the successful integration of Foundation Model Teacher setups created by the AIF and ML Infra teams into customer student frameworks, ensuring these integrations are maintained and optimized. Collaborate with customers to identify their requirements, working backwards to develop effective solutions. Enhance the teacher/student model distillation process, optimizing model inference footprints and sampling techniques to meet computational constraints. Establish and implement necessary metrics and evaluation infrastructure for assessing Waymo Foundation Models. Create frameworks and methodologies that drive data ‘Data Flywheel‘ mining and annotation applications, leveraging both Waymo and third-party datasets. You have:Proven expertise in machine learning, with a history of contributing to large-scale ML production systems throughout their development lifecycle. Strong experience in software engineering infrastructure, with the capability to analyze complex systems, algorithms, and modeling techniques. Background in evaluating and optimizing large-scale ML/AI systems. Experience leading engineering teams of 10 or more. Track record of hiring and developing high-performing teams.

About the job

Waymo is an innovative leader in autonomous driving technology, dedicated to becoming the world's most trusted driver. Originating from the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has committed itself to advancing the Waymo Driver—The World’s Most Experienced Driver™—to enhance mobility access while significantly reducing traffic-related fatalities. Our technology powers a fully autonomous ride-hail service and can be integrated into various vehicle platforms and product applications. With over ten million successful rides and extensive experience driving autonomously for over 100 million miles on public roads, Waymo is actively shaping the future of transportation across 15+ U. S. states.

The Waymo AI Foundations team is dedicated to pioneering machine learning solutions that tackle critical challenges in autonomous driving, aiming to ensure the safe operation of Waymo vehicles in diverse urban settings and under varying conditions. We are committed to fostering collaborations with other research teams within Alphabet. Current focus areas include reinforcement learning, learning from demonstration, generative modeling, Bayesian inference, hierarchical learning, and robust model evaluation.

This position operates on a hybrid work schedule and reports directly to the Vice President of AI Foundations.

About Waymo LLC

Waymo LLC is at the forefront of autonomous driving technology, striving to redefine mobility and safety on our roads. With a commitment to innovation, Waymo seeks to deliver reliable, fully autonomous transportation solutions that enhance urban lifestyles while prioritizing safety and accessibility.

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