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
Lead and manage a team to build large-scale foundation models, powering many: offboard and onboard applications for the Waymo Driver
Set the technical direction for the team, develop the execution strategies,: and align individual efforts with the overall strategies
Develop a collaborative relationship with cross-functional teams across: Waymo, including simulation, planner, semantics, and ML infrastructure
Establish an inclusive culture for the team, enabling research innovations and delivering impactful results
+ years of experience managing medium-size teams
Track record in developing team culture and growing people
What they're looking for
- + years experience in deep learning research or applied research
- Technical experience working with LLMs / VLMs or world models
- Strong background in foundation model related domains, such as pretraining,: mid-training, post-training, Transformer modeling, model scaling, self-supervised learning.
- Experience working with productionizing deep learning models