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Waymo

Research Scientist, World Modeling

Waymo, Mountain View, California, us, 94039

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Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The mission of the Waymo AI Foundations team is to develop machine learning solutions addressing open problems in autonomous driving, towards the goal of safely operating Waymo vehicles in dozens of cities and under all driving conditions. Job Description

In this hybrid role, you will report to a Staff Research Scientist. You Will: Design and implement generative world modeling solutions to simulate future world states / observations for embodied agents (autonomous vehicles) Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines to process data from multiple sources Design and implement evaluation strategies for generative world models Study and analyze different behaviors of this model, such as scaling efficacy, downstream quality implications, model architecture design ablations, etc Technical communication to both technical and non-technical audiences regarding research motivations and research findings. Conducting cutting-edge research and potentially communicating research findings to the wider academic community via technical reports and/or publications You Have: Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, or in a similar discipline or equivalent practical experience 3+ years of experience with Deep Learning and Generative Models Familiarity with major ML Frameworks (JAX, Tensorflow, Pytorch) Strong coding skills in Python We Prefer: PhD degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, or in a similar discipline or equivalent practical experience Publications at top-tier conferences like CVPR/ICCV/ECCV/ICLR/ICML/NeurIPS/IROS/CoRL etc. Substantial involvement in and contributions to high impact industry AI projects Experience in generative models for domains such as world models, images, videos, 3D, human animation, traffic, and/or simulation using techniques such as diffusion or autoregressive model Salary and Benefits

The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is $170,000.00/yr - $216,000.00/yr Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Waymo is an equal employment opportunity employer.

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