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 implement scenario preprocessors (e.g., visual rendering, scene: representations, and multimodal prompting) to effectively present driving scenarios to state-of-the-art VLMs
Develop postprocessors that translate VLM outputs into feasible, safe: trajectories for closed-loop vehicle control
Evaluate VLM driving harnesses in closed-loop autonomous driving simulation: and iterate on representations based on driving metrics
Communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences regarding research motivations and research findings
Conduct cutting-edge research and potentially communicate research findings: to the wider academic community via technical reports and/or publications
Currently enrolled in a PhD program in computer science, statistics, applied: mathematics, physics, or a related technical field of study
What they're looking for
- Familiarity with major ML Frameworks (JAX, Pytorch)
- Experience using coding agents for auto-research
- + years of experience with Deep Learning, Computer Vision, and Generative Models (such as VLMs/LLMs)
- Publications at top-tier conferences such as CVPR/ICCV/ECCV/ICLR/ICML/NeurIPS/IROS/CoRL etc.
