Research Scientist / Machine Learning Engineer

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the 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 One, a fully autonomous ride-hailing service, and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over one million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving tens of millions of miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 13+ U.S. states.

Research Scientist/Software Engineer, Machine Learning

This hybrid, or remote role from London, will report to a Senior Staff Research Scientist. #LI-Hybrid

The mission of the Waymo Applied Research team is to develop machine learning solutions addressing open problems in autonomous driving, towards the goal of the safely operating Waymo vehicles in dozens of cities and under all driving conditions. As part of our work, we also initiate and foster collaborations with other research teams in Alphabet.

In this role you'll:

• Work with a creative team of people who are responsible for ensuring that the behavior of our cars is safe, smooth, and predictable to other road users. This includes gracefully handling many complex situations involving social aspects (merging, negotiating narrow roads, etc), while dealing with noisy, uncertain, and incomplete information.
• Frame the open-ended real-world problems into well-defined ML problems; develop and apply cutting-edge ML approaches (deep learning, reinforcement learning, imitation learning, etc) to these problems; scale them to Google-sized data pipelines; and streamline them to run in real-time on the cars.
• Collaborate with other teams including the ML infrastructure, data science and systems engineering teams, as well as various research teams such as Waymo Research, Google Brain, DeepMind and academia

At a minimum we'd like you to have:

• MS in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience solving problems using Machine Learning with Tensorflow or equivalent tools.
• Experience collaborating with cross functional teams
• Strong experience programming in Python with robust and efficient code

It's preferred if you have:

• Experience programming in C++
• PHD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
• Deep knowledge of sampling and estimation, including Monte Carlo and importance sampling
• Experience with Deep Learning Models (e.g. RNN/LSTM, CNN, VAE, GAN, etc.)

The expected base salary range for this full-time position is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level.  Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Salary Range£117,000—£126,000 GBP