Director, Foundation Model Data Recipes
Waymo · Mountain View, CA. USA; San Francisco, CA. USA
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- Company
- Waymo
- Location
- Mountain View, CA. USA; San Francisco, CA. USA
- Salary
- $349,000 — $431,000
- Posted
- July 20, 2026
About this job
In this hybrid role, you will report to the Senior Director, AI Foundations. You will: Participate in Waymo’s Foundation World Model pre-training and post-training by owning the data recipe Invest in data best practices - best practices around clustering, filtering, de-duplication, long-tail data mining, memorization, etc. Also help lead a team of research engineers to build the data flywheel to enable the above from Waymo’s massive driving data Integrate emerging research from the broader community to do rigorous ablations and promising data research techniques. Focus on managing a team of scientists that would work on scaling ladders for pre-training, data mix optimizations and RL recipes (preferences) for post-training.…
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