Senior Research Scientist, Waymo

Foundation Model for Simulation

$204-259k

Python

Tensorflow

PyTorch

Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

Autonomous driving technology

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Autonomous driving technology

1001+ employees

B2CTransportAutomation

Be an early applicant

$204-259k

Python

Tensorflow

PyTorch

Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

1001+ employees

B2CTransportAutomation

Company mission

To make it simpler and safer for people to move things and themselves around.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Masters or PhD in deep learning in behavior and agent modeling or simulation
Proficiency in Python
3+ years of experience with modern deep learning frameworks. Prefer JAX or TensorFlow 2; however, Pytorch is acceptable

Desirable

Experience with:
Generative modeling
LLMs or VLMs (e.g., Gemini, Llama, GPT)
Post-training, incl. reinforcement learning
Distillation
Transformer models
Autoencoders and embeddings

What the job involves

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 Director of Research
Conduct applied foundation model research and development
Design compelling experiments by training and evaluating large deep learning models
Present results to peers and leadership
Write high quality code, unit tests, and documentation

Our take

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company that began as the Google self-driving car project in 2009. After initial development, it secured permits to deploy autonomous ride-hailing services in cities including Phoenix and San Francisco, but has recently hit a major bump in the road with safety concerns that resulted in a recall of over 400 self-driving cars.

With the autonomous driving industry already besieged by setbacks and public distrust, this development does Waymo no favours. That said, as an industry leader there remains the possibility it will see out the storm, but massive attention will need to be given to rebuilding trust with consumers if this is to be the case.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Led by a woman

Top investors

-1% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.7)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Aug 2024

$5.6bn

SERIES C

Jun 2021

$2.5bn

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Total funding: $11.1bn

Company HQ

Mountain View, CA

Leadership

Dmitri Dolgov

(Co-CEO, not founder)

Former CTO of the company. After a PhD at the University of Michigan, they worked as a Stanford Postdoctoral Researcher before moving to the Toyota Research Institute. They also spent 8 years at Google as a Software Engineer.

Tekedra N. Mawakana

(Co-CEO, not founder)

Has worked at Waymo since 2017, as Global Head of Policy then CXO then COO before becoming Co-CEO. They are on the Board of Advisors at Operator Collective, Board of Directors at Intuit, and an Advisor for Boom Supersonic.

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