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Staff Tech Lead, Perception, Pre-training & Distillation

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, California, United States, San Francisco, California, United States

Status

Open

Posted

2026-09-01T23:46:00+00:00

A staff-level technical lead role on Waymo's Perception team, reporting to a Senior Staff Technical Lead Manager and based on-site in Mountain View or San Francisco. The work centers on training multi-billion parameter spatio-temporal foundation models over datasets of billions of frames, delivering pre-trained models for production and real-time use, developing self-supervised learning for image, video and 3D point cloud encoders, multi-teacher distillation recipes, and methods to evaluate latent representation quality. It asks for an MS or PhD in computer science or similar, 5+ years in machine learning or computer vision, Python, and PyTorch or JAX. Preferred: top-tier publications, C++, real-time system design.