Senior Research Scientist, Foundation Model for Simulation

Waymo · Mountain View, CA | San Francisco, CA · AI Foundations (7SJ)

senior machine learning Research Scientist ic 3+ yrs Master's Hybrid
$204,000 – $259,000
USD per year

About this role

Waymo is hiring a senior-level Research Scientist in the machine learning function based in Mountain View, CA | San Francisco, CA (hybrid). The posting calls out experience with Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, LLMs and roughly 3+ years of relevant work. Listed education preference: a master's degree or equivalent. Compensation is listed at $204,000–$259,000 per year.

Role
Research Scientist
Function
machine learning
Level
senior
Track
Individual contributor
Employment
Full-time
Location
Mountain View, CA | San Francisco, CA
Work mode
Hybrid
Experience
3+ years
Education
Master's degree
Department
AI Foundations (7SJ)
AI Summary
Conduct applied foundation model research and development for autonomous driving, designing experiments with large deep learning models and presenting results to leadership. Requires Master's or PhD in deep learning, 3+ years with modern frameworks (JAX, TensorFlow 2, or PyTorch), and experience with generative modeling and LLMs/VLMs.
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Job description

from Waymo careers

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 Applied Research team is to develop machine learning solutions addressing open problems in autonomous driving, towards the goal of the 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.

In this hybrid role you will report to a Technical Lead Manager.

You will:

  • Conduct applied foundation model research and development

  • Design compelling experiments by training and evaluating large deep learning models

  • Present results to peers and leadership

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