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
Solve fundamental and applied research problems related to world: understanding using VLMs, generative modeling and 3D reconstruction at large scale.
Prototype and iterate on various research ideas using Waymo's internal driving data
Scale and productionize world understanding solutions in collaboration with engineering teams across Waymo
Present research findings to a wide audience within Waymo and Alphabet, with: the possibility of publishing results to the research community
Master’s or PhD degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine: Learning, Deep Learning, or in a similar discipline.
+ years of experience in a related field.
What they're looking for
- Expert in either Foundational VLMs, Computer Vision or learning-based 3D reconstruction methods (3DGS, NeRF).
- Strong ML software engineering skills in Python/C++ with an ability to rapidly prototype solutions.
- Familiarity with major ML Frameworks (JAX, Tensorflow, Pytorch).
- Publications at top-tier conferences like CVPR/ICCV/ECCV/ICLR/ICML/NeurIPS/IROS/CoRL etc.
