Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Vision-language Foundation Models

Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Waymo focused on vision-language foundation models. This role involves pioneering the use of large multimodal foundation models for autonomous driving, advancing VLM pre-training and post-training (SFT, RL), and developing a data flywheel system for scene understanding and driving actions.

Skills and focus areas

• machine learning
• foundation models
• vision-language models
• multimodal pre-training
• supervised fine-tuning (sft)
• reinforcement learning (rl)
• data curation
• dataset construction
• autonomous driving
• reasoning
• physics-grounded understanding
• scaling laws