Waymo · 4 months ago
Technical Lead Manager, LLM/VLM Foundation Model
Mountain View, California, USA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$281K/yr - $356K/yrWaymo is an autonomous driving technology company with a mission to be the world's most trusted driver. They are seeking a Technical Lead Manager to lead a team in developing state-of-the-art VLM/LLM solutions for the autonomous driving domain, focusing on improving the Waymo Driver's capabilities through multimodal learning. This role involves defining strategy, building training platforms, and collaborating with other teams to enhance Waymo products.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesSensorTransportation
Responsibilities
Led a team of scientists and engineers to build state-of-the-art VLM/LLM for autonomous driving domain
Define the vision and strategy for leveraging the latest multimodal LLM/VLM to improve the generalization capability for Waymo Driver, similar to EMMA
Build the training and data platform for Waymo-specific multimodal LLMs/VLMs
Deliver impact from LLM/VLM Teacher models to Waymo products in perception, mapping, and simulation
Collaborate with other teams to jointly build the Waymo Foundation Model
Qualification
Required
Track record in leading a medium size team of ~10 people
Track record in developing multimodal LLMs/VLMs
Experience in collaborating with horizontal teams
Technical ability to dive deep into complex systems, infrastructure, algorithms, and modeling techniques
Preferred
Experience in large-scale system development
LLM/VLM related publications or research work
Benefits
Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program
Equity incentive plan
Generous Company benefits program
Company
Waymo
Waymo is a mobility technology company that improves transportation by developing self-driving solutions for travelers and daily commuters. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet.
Founded in 2009
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$11.1BKey Investors
Alphabet
2024-07-23Series C· $5.6B
2021-06-16Series B· $2.5B
2020-05-12Series A· $750M
Leadership Team
Tekedra Mawakana
Co-Chief Executive Officer
Annabel Chang
Head of State Policy & Government Relations
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