Waymo

Director, Foundation Model Data Recipes

Mountain View, CA · Director · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$349k-$431kDetected 1 day ago

Machine LearningRoboticsResearch

About the role

The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases.
The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.
In this hybrid role, you will report to the Senior Director, AI Foundations.

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 mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes.
Invest in data best practices - best practices around clustering, filtering, de-duplication, long-tail data mining, memorization, etc. Also help lead a team of research engineers to build the data flywheel to enable the above from Waymo's massive driving data
Partner with engineering and research teams across Waymo to share recipes, techniques, and post-training best practices to accelerate our collective know-how

Experience leading teams of research scientists and engineers to deploy real world impact in AI - including showing real world impact.
Ability to be hands-on when needed to adapt models as and when needed.

PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or Robotics, with a research focus on Data centric AI, Reinforcement Learning, Foundation Models, or Multimodal learning
AI Foundations areas that we are currently focusing on include reinforcement learning, learning from demonstration, generative modeling, Bayesian inference, hierarchical learning, and robust evaluation.

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver.
As part of our work, we also initiate and foster collaborations with other research teams in Alphabet.

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