• Deep learning expertise, including recent innovation in large pre-trained foundational models and architecture performance optimizations
• Experience with Large Language Models (LLM) or Vision Language Models (VLM)
• Execution mindset and skills in a fast paced environment

Desirable

• Our Perception team builds the system that "sees" the world around the self-driving car. We conduct research to address real-world problems and collaborate with research teams at Alphabet.
• We have access to millions of miles of driving data from a diverse set of sensors, helping researchers like you to develop complex models and techniques at scale.
• You will drive horizontal efforts in building the state-of-the-art LLM/VLM models for various perception applications, including scene understanding, object understanding. You will work with teams horizontally across perception, and teams like planner, mapping, and simulation, along with Waymo Research
• Lead efforts in building model platforms for perception, powering many offboard and onboard applications for the Waymo Driver
• Drive the development and deployment of Vision Language Models (VLMs) and Large Language Models (LLMs)
• Promote collaboration with multiple problem domain teams and with research teams across Alphabet