Tech Lead Manager, Foundation ModelsPosted today$58K–$62K

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