Technical Lead Manager, LLM/VLM Foundation Model

The mission of the Waymo AI Foundations team is to develop machine learning solutions addressing open problems in autonomous driving, towards the goal of safely operating Waymo vehicles in dozens of cities and under all driving conditions. As part of our work, we also initiate and foster collaborations with other research teams in Alphabet. AI Foundations areas that we are currently focusing on include reinforcement learning, learning from demonstration, generative modeling, Bayesian inference, hierarchical learning, and robust evaluation.

You will:

• Led a team of scientists and engineers to build state-of-the-art VLM/LLM for autonomous driving domain.
• Define the vision and strategy for leveraging the latest multimodal LLM/VLM to improve the generalization capability for Waymo Driver, similar to EMMA. 
• Build the training and data platform for Waymo-specific multimodal LLMs/VLMs.
• Deliver impact from LLM/VLM Teacher models to Waymo products in perception, mapping, and simulation.
• Collaborate with other teams to jointly build the Waymo Foundation Model.

You Have:

• Track record in leading a medium size team of ~10 people.
• Track record in developing multimodal LLMs/VLMs.
• Experience in collaborating with horizontal teams.
• Technical ability to dive deep into complex systems, infrastructure, algorithms, and modeling techniques.

Nice to have:

• Experience in large-scale system development.
• LLM/VLM related publications or research work.