About the Role
Waymo is seeking a Research Scientist to join the AI Foundations team, focusing on developing machine learning solutions for autonomous driving. This role involves using Multimodal LLMs for 3D detection, designing evaluation frameworks, and conducting cutting-edge research. The position reports to a Principal Research Scientist and follows a hybrid work schedule.
Responsibilities
- Use Multimodal LLMs to perform 3D detection
- Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines for Training & Eval to process data from multiple sources
- Design and implement evaluation frameworks for perception models
- Study and analyze different behaviors of this model, such as scaling efficacy, downstream quality implications, model architecture design ablations, etc.
- Design and implement Perception Modeling solutions to understand LiDAR/Camera/Radar information from autonomous vehicle sensors
- Communicate with both technical and non-technical audiences regarding research motivations and research findings
- Conduct cutting-edge research and potentially communicating research findings to the wider academic community via technical reports and/or publications
Requirements
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science or a similar discipline, or an equivalent amount of deep learning experience
- 5+ years of experience with Deep Learning and Generative Models
- Familiarity with major ML Frameworks (JAX, Tensorflow, Pytorch)
- Strong coding skills in Python
Skills
- Multimodal LLMs
- 3D detection
- Data pipelines
- Perception models
- Deep Learning
- Generative Models
- JAX
- Tensorflow
- Pytorch
- Python
- LiDAR
- Camera
- Radar
Location
- US
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Education Level
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science or a similar discipline
- PhD degree in Computer Science or a similar discipline
Salary/Compensations
- $251,000—$310,000 USD
Benefits
- Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
- 401(k) with company match
- 20 days of vacation per year
- 40 hours/year sick time
- 5 days/event sick time
- 28-30 weeks maternity leave
- 18 weeks baby bonding leave
- 13 paid holidays per year
- Discretionary annual bonus program
- Equity incentive plan
About the Company
- Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver.
- Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes.
- The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases.
- The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.
- The mission of the Waymo AI Foundations team is to develop machine learning solutions addressing open problems in autonomous driving, towards the goal of safely operating Waymo vehicles in dozens of cities and under all driving conditions.
- As part of our work, we also initiate and foster collaborations with other research teams in Alphabet.
- AI Foundations areas that we are currently focusing on include reinforcement learning, learning from demonstration, generative modeling, Bayesian inference, hierarchical learning, and robust evaluation.
Equal Opportunity
- In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees.
