Research Scientist, Waymo
$158-200k
Office located in Mountain View, CA
Autonomous driving technology
Job no longer available
Autonomous driving technology
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$158-200k
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
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
- In-depth knowledge of designing and training large generative models
- Experience troubleshooting and debugging large training jobs, and curating appropriate datasets
- Experience in distributed training and optimization
- Proficiency in Python
Desirable
- Masters or PhD, preferably in Machine Learning domain
- Track record of publications in top-tier conferences or leading open source projects in the related fields
- Proficiency in machine learning compiler technologies such as XLA, Triton and distributed training libraries such as DeepSpeed
- Experience in quantization of machine learning model
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
- Adapt pretrained multimodal models to the domain of autonomous driving
- Design diverse approaches of world modeling and compare their performance on driving specific tasks (scene description, motion forecasting, object tracking, and planning)
- Develop scaling laws analysis for novel problems in autonomous driving that emerge from training, finetuning, sampling, and distillation
- Collaborating with the planner and perception teams and coordinating cross-functional efforts
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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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2021
$2.5bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
May 2020
$750m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $5.5bn
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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