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Research Scientist, RL for Autonomous Planning & World Modeling

Kirkland (US-KIR-6THD)💼 Full-time💰 $204,000–$204,000🗓 2026-06-17 → 2026-07-31

Core

Developing machine learning solutions for autonomous driving, specifically focusing on reinforcement learning and world models to enable safe vehicle operation in diverse conditions.

Role type

Research Scientist, RL for Autonomous Planning & World Modeling

Builds

Waymo Driver autonomous ride-hail service and internal RL infrastructure

Domain

Autonomous driving / Robotics / Reinforcement Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Reinforcement Learning, Foundation Models, Trajectory Planning, Model Training (Data parallel, FSDP), Distributed Inference, Ablation Studies, Open Source Contributions

Preferred skills

On-policy learning, Human preference alignment, Large-scale training infrastructure, Model sharding/tensor-parallel, Multi-modal learning

Technologies

FSDP, Data parallel, Tensor-parallel, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICRA

Responsibilities

Participate in Waymo's Foundation World Model post-training and evaluation; Research and develop cutting edge RL and Distillation techniques for Autonomous Vehicle Trajectory Planning; Integrate emerging research from the broader AI community into Waymo's internal RL infrastructure; Partner with engineering and research teams to share techniques and best practices.

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