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Research Scientist, Map Scalability

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

Company

Waymo

Location

Mountain View, CA, U.S.A; San Francisco, CA, U.S.A; New York City, NY, U.S.A

Status

Open

Posted

2026-09-08T21:50:14+00:00

Waymo's AI Foundations team is hiring a research scientist to work on world understanding at scale, using vision-language models, generative modeling and 3D reconstruction. The role combines fundamental research with productionizing systems alongside engineering teams, prototyping on Waymo's internal driving data and presenting findings across Waymo and Alphabet, with possible external publication. Candidates need a master's or PhD in a relevant field, 1-3+ years of experience, expertise in VLMs, computer vision or learning-based 3D reconstruction (3DGS, NeRF), and strong Python/C++ machine learning engineering.