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Research Scientist, RL for Autonomous Planning & World Modeling

3 hours, 13 minutes ago
United States
Full-time
Senior
Research Scientist
Software Development
Machine Learning Reinforcement Learning
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Waymo

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company building the Waymo Driver and operating Waymo One, its fully autonomous ride-hailing service.

Autonomous vehicles, robotics, AI, ride-hailing / mobility tech
Founded 2009
$21600M raised
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Description

  • Participate in Waymo’s Foundation World Model post-training and evaluation.
  • Research and develop reinforcement learning and distillation techniques for autonomous vehicle trajectory planning.
  • Integrate emerging research from the broader AI community into Waymo’s internal reinforcement learning infrastructure.
  • Run rigorous ablation studies to identify and scale the most promising methods.
  • Partner with engineering and research teams across Waymo to share recipes, techniques, and post-training best practices.

Requirements

  • PhD or Master’s in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a similar technical field.
  • 3+ years of industry or post-doc research experience in Reinforcement Learning or Foundation Models.
  • Demonstrated original contributions through high-impact publications, technical blog posts, or significant open-source contributions.
  • Proficiency implementing model training flows in a scalable, distributed, and performant manner, including data parallel, FSDP, and other sharding approaches.
  • Willingness to work with the complexity of globally distributed inference infrastructure.
  • Preferred: PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or Robotics with a research focus on Reinforcement Learning, Foundation Models, or Multi-Modal learning.
  • Preferred: Extensive experience designing and deploying reinforcement learning infrastructure, especially for on-policy learning or alignment with human preferences.
  • Preferred: First-author publications at top-tier venues such as NeurIPS, ICLR, or ICRA, or significant open-source ML projects.
  • Preferred: Experience with large-scale many-machine training infrastructure and inference techniques for large models such as model sharding or tensor-parallel.
  • Remote work is possible, but Waymo may not be able to employ remotely in all locations.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $204,000 to $259,000 USD.
  • Eligibility for Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program.
  • Eligibility for Waymo’s equity incentive plan.
  • Access to Waymo’s generous company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.
  • Remote work may be available depending on location.

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