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Tech Lead Manager, Foundation Models

Kirkland (US-KIR-6THD)💼 Full-time💰 $298,000–$298,000🗓 2026-06-17 → 2026-07-31

Core

Lead and manage a team to build large-scale foundation models powering offboard and onboard applications for the Waymo Driver autonomous vehicle system.

Role type

Senior IC Tech Lead Manager (Foundation Models)

Builds

Large-scale foundation models for autonomous driving

Domain

Autonomous driving / AI

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Team management, technical direction, cross-functional collaboration, inclusive culture building, deep learning research, applied research, LLMs/VLMs/world models

Preferred skills

Foundation model pretraining/mid-training/post-training, Transformer modeling, model scaling, self-supervised learning, productionizing deep learning models

Responsibilities

Lead and manage a team to build large-scale foundation models, Set the technical direction for the team, Develop a collaborative relationship with cross-functional teams, Establish an inclusive culture for the team

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with management responsibilities

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