Waymo is seeking a Research Scientist to enhance their autonomous vehicle technology through advanced machine learning techniques, particularly in reinforcement learning and world modeling. The ideal candidate will have a strong academic background, relevant industry experience, and a proven track record of contributions to the AI community
Job Summary
The role focuses on developing machine learning solutions to address open problems in autonomous driving through the Waymo AI Foundations team.
Candidates will integrate emerging research from the broader AI community into internal RL infrastructure while conducting rigorous ablations to scale promising methods.
Waymo employees are eligible for a discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous company benefits.
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Waymo is seeking a Research Scientist to enhance their autonomous vehicle technology through advanced machine learning techniques, particularly in reinforcement learning and world modeling. The ideal candidate will have a strong academic background, relevant industry experience, and a proven track record of contributions to the AI community.
Salary
Base: $204,000 - $259,000 USD; Bonus/Equity: Discretionary annual bonus and equity incentive plan; Benefits: Generous Company benefits program
Skills & Requirements
Must-have
Reinforcement Learning research experience
Foundation Models expertise
Distributed model training implementation
High-impact AI publications record
Nice-to-have
On-policy RL infrastructure design
Human preference alignment experience
Large-scale inference infrastructure knowledge
Tensor-parallel model sharding skills
Key Requirements
PhD or Masters in Computer Science or related field
3+ years industry or post-doc research experience
Proficiency in scalable distributed training flows