[ engineering ]
Staff Tech Lead, Perception, Pre-training & Distillation
Waymo- Location
- Mountain View, California, United States, San Francisco, California, United States
- Work mode
- Remote
- Type
- full time
- Listed
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[ About this role ]
Staff Tech Lead for Perception at Waymo, focusing on pre-training and distillation of spatio-temporal foundation models. Responsibilities include training multi-billion parameter models on large datasets, delivering pre-trained models for production, and developing self-supervised learning techniques and multi-teacher distillation recipes.
Skills and focus areas
- spatio-temporal foundation models
- pre-training
- distillation
- self-supervised learning
- image encoder
- video encoder
- 3d point cloud encoder
- vision-language contrastive learning
- multi-teacher distillation
- latent representation evaluation
Summary written by Ramai from the original posting. Full details and requirements are on Waymo’s careers page.
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