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Staff Research Scientist, Perception

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experi

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Company

Waymo

Location

Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; New York City, NY, USA

Status

Open

Posted

2026-06-02T19:43:38+00:00

Waymo's AI Foundations team seeks a Staff Research Scientist for perception. The role involves developing multimodal large language models and world models for 3D perception using camera, LiDAR, and radar data, integrating external research into sensor-understanding models, building scalable training and evaluation pipelines, and analyzing scaling and architecture choices. Applicants need a PhD or master's plus four years in reinforcement learning or foundation models, a strong publication record, and distributed-training experience. The position is hybrid and reports to a principal research scientist.