Senior Research Scientist, World Action Modeling

Posted Jul 22, 2026

WaymoMountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; New York City, NY, USAfull-timestaff

$213,000 USD

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Tech Stack

PythonRustTypeScript

Responsibilities

Design and implement generative world action modeling solutions to simulate future world states/observations and generate policies for embodied agents (autonomous vehicles).
Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines to process data from multiple sources.
Design and implement evaluation strategies for world action models.
Study and analyze different behaviors of this model, such as scaling efficacy, downstream quality implications, and model architecture design ablations.
Conduct cutting-edge research and potentially communicate findings to the wider academic community via technical blog posts, reports, and/or publications.

Benefits

401k
Equity
Health Insurance
Learning Budget
Parental Leave
Remote Work

Culture

Cross-Functional CollaborationHybrid Work

Requirements

Required: PhD degree in Computer Science or a similar discipline, or an equivalent amount of deep learning research experience

Regions: Us

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.

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Compensation

Base salary: $213,000 USD

Equity: equity incentive plan

Bonus: discretionary annual bonus program

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