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Waymo

Robot type
Autonomous Vehicle
Location
San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Artificial Intelligence
Posted
Sep 1, 2026
Salary
$251,000–$310,000 a year
Full-time

Staff Tech Lead, Perception, Pre-training & Distillation

Job description

The Perception team builds the system which learns the spatial-temporal representation and their semantic meanings of the surrounding environment of the self-driving car, i.e., the system that “perceives” the world around the car. We work jointly with downstream teams on the optimization and integration into the Waymo Driver. We conduct our own research to address real-world problems and collaborate with research teams at Alphabet.

In this role you will report to a Sr Staff Technical Lead Manager.

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver.

Job responsibilities

  • Train multi-billion parameter spatio-temporal foundation models on multi-billion frame data sets.
  • Deliver pre-trained models for production usage, ideally for usage in real-time systems.
  • Develop self-supervised learning, including image/video encoder, 3D point cloud encoder, spatio-temporal reconstruction or future prediction, and vision-language contrastive learning.
  • Develop multi-teacher distillation recipes.
  • Develop methods to understand and evaluate the quality of latent representations from pre-training. Collaborate with the post-training team to ensure pre-training delivers the world knowledge representation needed for…
  • Develop methods to curate and effectively use diverse datasets in training.
  • Be a key contributor to technical roadmaps.

Job requirements

  • MS or PhD in Computer Science or a similar discipline, or an equivalent amount of deep learning experience
  • 5+ years experience in Machine Learning and/or Computer Vision
  • Fluent in Python
  • In-depth experience with ML frameworks like PyTorch or JAX
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