Research Scientist, Waymo
World Modeling
$158-200k
+ Discretionary annual bonus program + Equity incentive plan
Office located in Mountain View, CA
Autonomous driving technology
Open for applications
Autonomous driving technology
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$158-200k
+ Discretionary annual bonus program + Equity incentive plan
Office located in Mountain View, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make it simpler and safer for people to move things and themselves around.
Role
Who you are
- BS degree in Computer Science or a similar discipline, or an equivalent amount of deep learning experience
- 3+ years of experience with Deep Learning and 1+ years with Generative Models
- Familiarity with major ML Frameworks (JAX, Tensorflow, Pytorch)
- Coding skills, particularly Python
Desirable
- PhD degree in Computer Science or a similar discipline, or an equivalent amount of deep learning research experience
- Publications on top-tier conferences like CVPR/ICCV/ECCV/ICLR/ICML/NeurIPS/IROS/CoRL etc
- Substantial involvement in and contributions to high impact industry AI projects
- Experience in generative models for domains such as world models, images, videos, 3D, human animation, traffic, simulation etc, using techniques such as diffusion or autoregressive models
What the job involves
- In this hybrid role, you will report to a Staff Research Engineer
- Design and implement generative world modeling solutions to simulate future world states / observations for embodied agents (autonomous vehicles)
- Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines to process data from multiple sources
- Design and implement evaluation strategies for generative world models
- Study and analyze different behaviors of this model, such as scaling efficacy, downstream quality implications, model architecture design ablations, etc
- Technical communication to both technical and non-technical audiences regarding research motivations and research findings
- Conducting cutting-edge research and potentially communicating research findings to the wider academic community via technical reports and/or publications
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.
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Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
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 values
- Our customers are at the heart of everything we do
- Safety is our foundation
- We pioneer
- Act with thoughtful urgency
- Respect each other
- Be responsible owners
- We’re stronger together
- Optionality creates opportunities
- Always be learning
- Celebrate progress
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
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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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