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
Define research goals, setup dataset and training code to hill-climb the: model performance, analyze the results and define the next sets of experiments
Write a good document for communicating with team members
Able to use the feedback from the team members to adjust the setup, experiments, and research directions
Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, or a related quantitative field
Knowledge of pre-training and post-training of the large foundation models
Hands-on experience of training modern AI models
What they're looking for
- Good analytical skills and interpret experiments results and forming verifiable hypothesis
- Write a bug-free code, and able to implement correct software without much guidance
- Have a solid research background in robotics or self-driving cars
- Familiar with modern AI infrastructure and tooling such as pytorch, jax, and: comfortable in working on cluster/server environments
