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Staff Research Scientist, Foundation Models Recipes

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experi

Company

Waymo

Location

Mountain View, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, US; Kirkland, WA, US

Status

Open

Posted

2026-08-03T23:19:22+00:00

Waymo's AI Foundations team seeks a staff research scientist to own the data recipe for foundation model pre-training and post-training. Work covers clustering, filtering, de-duplication and long-tail data mining, plus scaling ladders, data mix optimisation and preference-based reinforcement learning recipes. The person tech-leads research engineers building a data flywheel over Waymo's driving data and partners with teams across the company. The posting asks for a PhD or master's, three-plus years in data-centric AI, reinforcement learning or foundation models, and depth in PyTorch, JAX or TensorFlow.