Senior Ml Engineer, Llm / Vlm Distillation

Waymo

Mountain View, United States
Base: $213,000 - $263,000 usd; bonus/equity: discr...
Hybrid
Experience building large-scale deep learning systems
Experience with vlm and llm models
Distillation from large foundation models
Waymo is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in large language model (LLM) and vision-language model (VLM) distillation to enhance their autonomous driving technology. The role requires experience in building large-scale deep learning systems and offers a hybrid work schedule with a competitive salary range

Job Summary

  • The role focuses on developing ML solutions to safely operate autonomous vehicles in diverse conditions through the AI Foundations team.
  • Candidates will work on distilling quality gains from large teacher models to smaller real-time models for critical semantic tasks.
  • This position follows a hybrid work schedule and reports directly to a Research Director of AI Foundations.

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Waymo is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in large language model (LLM) and vision-language model (VLM) distillation to enhance their autonomous driving technology. The role requires experience in building large-scale deep learning systems and offers a hybrid work schedule with a competitive salary range.

Salary

Base: $213,000 - $263,000 USD; Bonus/Equity: Discretionary annual bonus program and equity incentive plan available; Benefits: Generous Company benefits program subject to eligibility requirements

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Experience building large-scale deep learning systems
  • Experience with VLM and LLM models
  • Distillation from large foundation models

Nice-to-have

  • Training or deploying multi-modal LLMs
  • Specific distillation recipe experience
  • Customizing data for business-critical tasks

Key Requirements

  • Experience in building large-scale deep learning systems
  • Experience in VLM/LLM models
  • Hybrid work schedule availability

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