Senior Staff Software Engineer, Model Post Training
Waymo · Mountain View, CA | San Francisco, CA · Perception (7LT)
About this role
Waymo is hiring a senior-level Software Engineer based in Mountain View, CA | San Francisco, CA. The posting calls out experience with PyTorch, LLMs, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning. Listed education preference: a bachelor's degree or equivalent. Compensation is listed at $281,000–$356,000 per year.
- Role
- Software Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- senior
- Track
- Tech leadership
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Mountain View, CA | San Francisco, CA
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Department
- Perception (7LT)
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Job description
from Waymo careersWaymo 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.
We are seeking highly motivated and talented experienced engineers to join our team to lead the post-training LLM for autonomous driving. You will be working alongside a world-class team of researchers and engineers to develop and advance the next generation of frontier AI models.
You will:
- Post-training for instruction following and CoT thinking: Develop and apply methods to enhance the instruction following and CoT abilities of LLM models targeting autonomous driving applications. This may include fine-tuning strategies, reinforcement learning techniques, or novel approaches to improve LLM’s ability to solve complex driving tasks, make decisions, and interact with dynamic environments.