Our Perception team at Waymo is responsible for understanding and representing the world around our autonomous vehicles. Our Data Primary team within Perception ensures that we have high-quality, accessible data to power our AI systems.

In this hybrid role you will report to a Software Engineering Manager.

You will:

• Develop infrastructure and frameworks for generating reliable, high quality data for Perception foundation model development at the tens of petabyte scale
• Deploy and maintain end-to-end data pipelines that deliver the foundation model data
• Curate and deliver data sets, for both nominal and rare instances, that support the diverse ML tasks for Perception foundation models
• Collaborate with foundation model, Perception evaluation, and ML infrastructure teams to integrate data generation into model training and evaluation frameworks
• Collaborate with production teams to deploy foundation models in deployment settings
• Responsible for infrastructure reliability, data availability, and data quality

You have:

• Outstanding programming skills in C++, or Python
• Hands-on experience building large-scale data processing and retrieval systems and pipelines: Apache Spark, Apache Beam, Google Cloud Dataflow, AWS Data Pipeline, or Faiss
• 3+ years of experience in ML data engineering, including data pipelines, data curation, and data balancing
• 3+ years of experience working in integrated settings to support data users and collaborating with our infrastructure partners; customer-oriented mindset
• MS and 1+ years of industrial experience, or equivalent

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