Machine Learning Research Lead for Autonomous Vehicles - Remote

Overview

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the 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 mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo One, a fully autonomous ride-hailing service, and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over one million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving tens of millions of miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 13+ U.S. states.

In Short

• Plan and implement a Machine Learning driven AV planner research agenda
• Incorporate and extend research in robotics and machine learning to promote the state-of-the-art for high-level planning for autonomous vehicles, with advanced techniques in foundation modeling, reinforcement learning and search
• Manage and technically lead a team of research scientists as they grow in their careers
• Partner across our organizations to land tech in production
• Publish work at top-tier academic venues

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
• 10+ years of experience developing or doing research in deep learning-based systems for robotics, involving dataset, evaluation, and model design.
• 5+ years of experience managing a team
• Proficiency in Python
• Hands-on experience developing modern deep learning architectures and training

Benefits

• Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.