Senior Research Scientist, Perception
Posted
WaymoMountain View, CA, USA ; San Francisco, CA, USA ; Kirkland, WA, USA ; New York City, NY, USAfull-timeprincipal
$213,000 USD
Tech Stack
Responsibilities
- Research and develop state-of-the-art Multimodal LLMs and World models to perform 3D Perception using sensor information from Camera, LiDAR and Radar.
- Integrate emerging research from the broader AI community into Waymo’s Encoders and Sensor understanding models.
- Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines for training and evaluation to process data from multiple sources.
- Design and implement evaluation frameworks for perception models.
- Conduct cutting-edge research and potentially communicate findings to the wider academic community via technical reports and/or publications.
Benefits
- 401k
- Equity
- Health Insurance
- Learning Budget
- Parental Leave
- Remote Work
Culture
Hybrid Work
Requirements
Required: PhD or Masters in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a similar technical field
Preferred: PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or Robotics, with a research focus on Reinforcement Learning, Foundation Models, or Multi-Modal learning
Regions: Us
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About Waymo
Industry: autonomous driving
Size: large
Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver, operating fully autonomous ride-hail services and driving over 100 million miles on public roads.
View company profile →Compensation
Base salary: $213,000 USD
Equity: equity incentive plan
Bonus: discretionary annual bonus program
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