Technical Lead Manager – Planner Research
| Company | Waymo |
|---|---|
| Location | San Francisco, CA, USA, Mountain View, CA, USA |
| Salary | $281000 – $356000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Expert or higher |
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
Responsibilities
- 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
Preferred Qualifications
- Masters or PhD, preferably in Machine Learning domain
- Publications in top-tier conferences or leading open source projects in the related fields
- Hands-on SWE skills, able to implement or extend large-scale data and evaluation pipelines
- Proficiency in C++
- Proficiency in one or more deep learning frameworks
- Experience in AV planning and related research