Hybrid Senior Research Scientist, Multimodal 3D Perception

Waymo; Kirkland (WA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance

401(k) with company match

20 days of vacation per year

Maternity leave of 28–30 weeks

13 paid holidays per year

Job summary

Waymo, located in Kirkland, Washington, is seeking a talented researcher to focus on advanced machine learning solutions for autonomous driving. This role includes responsibilities such as developing multimodal LLMs for 3D perception and integrating cutting-edge research into existing models.

Candidates should have a Ph.D. or master’s in a relevant field and possess significant research experience. Waymo offers a hybrid work schedule along with comprehensive benefits, including health insurance and retirement plans.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of industry or post-doc research experience in reinforcement learning or foundation models.
• High-impact publications in conferences such as NeurIPS/ICLR/CVPR.
• Proficiency in implementing scalable model training flows.

Responsibilities

• Research & develop multimodal LLMs and world models for 3D perception.
• Integrate research into Waymo's models and encoders.
• Design and implement perception modeling solutions.

Skills

Reinforcement learning

Machine learning

3D perception

Data pipelines

Education

Ph.D. or master’s in computer science or machine learning

Job description

Waymo, located in Kirkland, Washington, is seeking a talented researcher to focus on advanced machine learning solutions for autonomous driving. This role includes responsibilities such as developing multimodal LLMs for 3D perception and integrating cutting-edge research into existing models.

Candidates should have a Ph.D. or master’s in a relevant field and possess significant research experience. Waymo offers a hybrid work schedule along with comprehensive benefits, including health insurance and retirement plans.