Waymo · 10 hours ago
Senior Staff Research Engineer, Model Post Training
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$281K/yr - $356K/yrWaymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. They are seeking highly motivated and talented experienced engineers to lead the post-training LLM for autonomous driving, working alongside a world-class team to develop and advance frontier AI models.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesSensorTransportation
Responsibilities
Post-training for instruction following and CoT thinking: Develop and apply methods to enhance the instruction following and CoT abilities of LLM models targeting autonomous driving applications. This may include fine-tuning strategies, reinforcement learning techniques, or novel approaches to improve LLM’s ability to solve complex driving tasks, make decisions, and interact with dynamic environments
Collaborate deeply with research teams asking the right technical questions, translating research advances into production-ready systems, and shaping joint technical direction
Provide technical leadership to influence senior engineers and researchers across ML, infra, and data teams
Raise the technical bar for how Waymo trains, evaluates, and deploys LLM models in the autonomous driving technical stack
Qualification
Required
Demonstrated experience developing post-training methods for LLM models
Extensive experience with deep learning frameworks (e.g. PyTorch, JAX) and large-scale model training
A track record of operating effectively under ambiguity, setting direction amid rapidly evolving research and technical constraints
The ability to translate research insights into production-ready post-training pipelines and systems
Experience applying large language models or foundation models in complex, safety-critical domains (e.g., autonomy, robotics, or other high-reliability systems)
Excellent communication and collaboration skills
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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