Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Tech Lead, Labeling Automation
Core
Lead technical strategy for automating data pipelines and building intelligent auto-graders to scale throughput and ensure data quality for Waymo's autonomous driving fleet.
Role type
Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Tech Lead)
Builds
Scalable auto-labeling pipelines, automated anomaly detection systems, and production computer vision/VLM models
Domain
Autonomous driving, Computer Vision, Vision-Language Models
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
C++ or Python, deep learning model deployment, distributed computing, PyTorch or TensorFlow, full ML lifecycle management
Preferred skills
Internal ML tooling development
Technologies
SAM, YOLO, VLMs, LLMs
Responsibilities
Architect and scale auto-labeling pipelines, build robust auto-graders, train and deploy SOTA computer vision models, leverage VLMs for labeling tasks, drive technical direction and mentor engineers, collaborate cross-functionally with Perception and Simulation teams
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with technical leadership