The opportunity
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…
What you'll do
Design and conduct experiments on large-scale generative or foundation model training recipes
Analyze model evaluation metrics to identify performance bottlenecks and optimization strategies
Collaborate with researchers and engineers to integrate novel techniques into production training pipelines
Currently enrolled in a PhD program in Computer Science, AI, Robotics, or a related quantitative field
Solid background in deep learning, transformer architectures, and generative modeling
Proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow)
What they're looking for
- Publications at top-tier AI/ML conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ECCV, ICCV)
- Experience with distributed training across multi-node GPU/TPU clusters
- Familiarity with autonomous driving perception, prediction, or planning problems
