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Research Scientist – World Modeling
| Company | Waymo |
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| Location | Mountain View, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $170000 – $216000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Mid Level, Senior |
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Requirements
- BS degree in Computer Science or a similar discipline, or an equivalent amount of deep learning experience
- 3+ years of experience with Deep Learning and 1+ years with Generative Models
- Familiarity with major ML Frameworks (JAX, Tensorflow, Pytorch)
- Coding skills, particularly Python
Responsibilities
- Design and implement generative world modeling solutions to simulate future world states / observations for embodied agents (autonomous vehicles)
- Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines to process data from multiple sources
- Design and implement evaluation strategies for generative world models
- Study and analyze different behaviors of this model, such as scaling efficacy, downstream quality implications, model architecture design ablations, etc.
- Technical communication to both technical and non-technical audiences regarding research motivations and research findings
- Conducting cutting-edge research and potentially communicating research findings to the wider academic community via technical reports and/or publications
Preferred Qualifications
- PhD degree in Computer Science or a similar discipline, or an equivalent amount of deep learning research experience
- Publications on top-tier conferences like CVPR/ICCV/ECCV/ICLR/ICML/NeurIPS/IROS/CoRL etc.
- Substantial involvement in and contributions to high impact industry AI projects
- Experience in generative models for domains such as world models, images, videos, 3D, human animation, traffic, simulation etc, using techniques such as diffusion or autoregressive models
