Waymo
Senior Research Scientist, Perception
$213K–$263K
Mountain View, CA, USA +7 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 12, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA, USA
San Francisco, CA, USA
Kirkland, WA, USA
New York City, NY, USA
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Mountain View, California, United States
New York, New York, United States
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 2+ years of industry or post-doc research experience in Reinforcement Learning or Foundation Models.
- Education
- PhD or Masters in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a similar technical field.
About the job
Research and develop perception models using multimodal AI and vehicle sensor data, including evaluation and scalable training pipelines.
What you'll do
- Develop multimodal LLMs, world models, and perception solutions using camera, LiDAR, and radar data.
- Build scalable training and evaluation pipelines and frameworks; analyze model behavior and design choices.
- Conduct research and communicate findings through technical reports or publications.
What they ask for
- Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a similar technical field.
- 2+ years of industry or postdoctoral research experience in Reinforcement Learning or Foundation Models.
- Demonstrated original contributions through publications, technical blog posts, or significant open-source contributions.
- Proficiency implementing scalable, distributed, performant model training, such as data parallelism and FSDP.
Nice to have
- Research focus in Reinforcement Learning, Foundation Models, or multimodal learning; experience with RL infrastructure or human-preference alignment.
- Experience with generative models, including diffusion or autoregressive techniques, and high-impact AI projects or open-source work.
Pay
$213,000 — $263,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Multimodal LLMs, World models, Camera, LiDAR, Radar, Data parallel, FSDP
AI focus
Develop multimodal LLMs and world models for 3D perception; apply emerging AI research to sensor-understanding models and evaluate perception behavior.
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