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Robot type
Autonomous Vehicle
Location
Mountain ViewCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Artificial Intelligence
Posted
Dec 22, 2025
Salary
$170,000–$216,000 a year
Full-time

Machine Learning Engineer Perception LLM/VLM (PhD, New Grad)

Job description

The Perception team builds the system which learns the spatial-temporal representation and their semantic meanings of the surrounding environment of the autonomously driving vehicle (ADV), i.e., the system that “perceives” the world around the car. We work jointly with downstream teams on the optimization and integration into the Waymo Driver. We conduct our own research to address real-world problems and collaborate with research teams at Alphabet.

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…

Job responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and optimize large-scale continual pre-training pipelines for cutting-edge VLM foundation models.
  • Conduct research and development on novel pre-training techniques, focusing on efficiently integrating new, diverse, and multimodal data streams (e.g., visual data from different sensors) into existing models.
  • Develop and rigorously evaluate metrics and methodologies for measuring the performance, and transferability of continually pre-trained foundation models in the context of autonomous driving.
  • Stay current with the latest advancements in large language models, vision-language models, and continual learning, and translate relevant research into production-ready systems.

Job requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in Machine Learning, with a focus on large-scale model development (LLM, VLM, or similar foundation models).
  • Proven expertise in LLM/VLM pre-training, continual learning with large scale datasets.
  • Strong coding proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks (e.g., Jax, TensorFlow, PyTorch).
  • Hands-on experience with model training, evaluation, and deployment in a production environment.
  • Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
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