Staff Research Scientist, Foundation Models Recipes
WaymoAutonomous Vehicles company
Mountain View, United States$251,000 - $310,000 USDLead
Dragoneer Investment Group
DST Global
Sequoia Capital
Andreessen Horowitz
Alphabet
Mubadala Capital
Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Lead research and development of data recipes for foundation models in autonomous driving.
- •Waymo is seeking a Staff Research Scientist to own the data recipe for Foundation Model pre-training and post-training.
- •This hybrid role involves leading science on data best practices and tech-leading a team to build a data flywheel from massive driving data.
- •Key Responsibilities Own the data recipe for Waymo's Foundation Model pre-training and post-training.
- •Lead science on best practices around clustering, filtering, de-duplication, long-tail data mining, and memorization.
- •Tech-lead a team of research engineers to build the data flywheel from Waymo's massive driving data.
- •Integrate emerging research for rigorous ablations and promising data research techniques.
- •Engage with the wider research community on data-centric evaluation creation and refinement.
- •Requirements PhD or Masters in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a similar technical field. 3+ years of industry or post-doc research experience in Data-centric AI, Reinforcement Learning or Foundation Models.
- •Demonstration of original contributions through high-impact publications, technical blog posts, or significant open-source contributions.
- •Proficiency and in-depth knowledge of ML frameworks (e.g.
- •Pytorch, JAX, Tensorflow).
Required skills
PythonPyTorchJAXTensorFlowLLMs
Domain expertise
automotivedeeptechai
Benefits & perks
Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance, 401(k) with company match, 20 days of vacation per year, Sick Time, Maternity Leave, Baby Bonding Leave, 13 paid holidays per year
Tech stack
PythonPyTorchJAXTensorFlowLLMs