Senior Research Scientist, Perception

Highlights

• Build 3D perception for the Waymo Driver powering autonomous ride-hail service.
• Advance machine learning for safe operation across dozens of cities.
• Publish cutting-edge research with Alphabet collaborations and academic community.

What they offer

• Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• 20 days of vacation per year
• Sick time and parental leave including baby bonding leave
• 13 paid holidays per year
• Discretionary annual bonus program and equity incentive plan

Ideal candidate

Curious research scientist energized by unsolved autonomy challenges and real-world impact. You enjoy bridging cutting-edge AI research with large-scale deployment and sharing findings openly.

Requirements

• PhD or Masters in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics or similar technical field
• 2+ years of industry or post-doc research experience in Reinforcement Learning or Foundation Models
• Demonstration of original contributions through high-impact publications, technical blog posts or open-source contributions
• Proficiency in scalable, distributed and performant model training flows such as Data Parallel, FSDP and sharding
• Willingness to work with complexity of globally distributed inference infrastructure