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Senior Research Scientist, Perception

Kirkland (US-KIR-6THD)💼 Full-time💰 $213,000–$213,000🗓 2026-06-17 → 2026-07-31

Core

Research and develop state-of-the-art Multimodal LLMs and World models for 3D Perception using Camera, LiDAR, and Radar sensor data to enable autonomous driving.

Role type

Senior Research Scientist (Perception/AI Foundations)

Builds

Multimodal LLMs, World models, Encoders, and Sensor understanding models for the Waymo Driver.

Domain

Autonomous driving, Computer Vision, Reinforcement Learning, Foundation Models

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Multimodal LLMs, World models, 3D Perception, Reinforcement Learning, Foundation Models, Distributed training (Data parallel, FSDP), Model evaluation frameworks, Sensor data analysis (LiDAR/Camera/Radar), Academic publishing

Preferred skills

On-policy Reinforcement Learning, Human preference alignment, Generative models (diffusion/autoregressive), 3D/Video generation, Top-tier conference publications (NeurIPS/ICLR/ICRA)

Technologies

LLMs, World models, FSDP, Data parallel, Diffusion models, Autoregressive models

Responsibilities

Research and develop Multimodal LLMs and World models for 3D Perception; Integrate emerging AI research into Waymo's Encoders and Sensor models; Develop scalable data pipelines for Training & Eval; Design evaluation frameworks for perception models; Analyze model behaviors (scaling efficacy, architecture ablations); Design Perception Modeling solutions for LiDAR/Camera/Radar data; Communicate research findings via technical reports or publications.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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