Senior Research Scientist

4 weeks ago


Mountain View, Arkansas, United States Waymo Full time
Waymo Applied Research Team

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Research Scientist to join our team at Waymo, a leader in autonomous driving technology. As a member of our Applied Research team, you will be responsible for developing machine learning solutions to address open problems in autonomous driving.

Our team's mission is to safely operate Waymo vehicles in dozens of cities and under all driving conditions. We achieve this by pushing the boundaries of machine learning and computer vision. If you have a passion for innovation and a drive to make a meaningful impact, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Extend and fine-tune existing large vision-language models
  • Build datasets, training infrastructure, and mixture of training for driving specific tasks (trajectory planning and rationale, spatial reasoning, semantic understanding)
  • Use language to model the driving rationale and environment context
  • Research evaluation of a driving system

Requirements:

  • In-depth knowledge of designing and training large language models and multi-modal applications
  • ~3+ years of experience training generative models networks at scale
  • ~3+ years of experience in large-scale distributed training and optimization
  • ~ Background in publications in top-tier conferences in the related fields
  • ~ PhD or equivalent years of experience

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience in autonomous vehicles or motion planning
  • Experience transferring research findings into products
  • Proficiency in C++

What We Offer:

Waymo offers a competitive salary and benefits package, as well as opportunities for professional growth and development. If you are passionate about autonomous driving and machine learning, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.



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