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Waymo · 1 month ago

Technical Lead Manager, LLM/VLM Foundation Model

positionMountain View, CA
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
seniorityLead/Staff
money$281K/yr - $356K/yr

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. The Technical Lead Manager will lead a team of scientists and engineers to develop state-of-the-art VLM/LLM models for the autonomous driving domain, collaborating with other teams to enhance the capabilities of the Waymo Driver.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesSensorTransportation
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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

Multimodal LLM/VLM developmentTeam leadershipComplex systems understandingCollaboration with teamsLarge-scale system developmentLLM/VLM publications

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

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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.
dateFounded in 2009
location
Mountain View, California, USA
people-size1001-5000 employees
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https://waymo.com

H1B Sponsorship

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Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$11.1B
Key Investors
Alphabet
2024-07-23Series C· $5.6B
2021-06-16Series B· $2.5B
2020-05-12Series A· $750M

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Tekedra Mawakana
Co-Chief Executive Officer
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Elisa de Martel
Chief Financial Officer
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