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Senior Research Scientist, Foundation Model for Simulation

Mountain View, CA USA; San Francisco, CA USA💼 Full-time💰 $204,000–$204,000🗓 2026-06-12 → 2026-08-01

Core

Conduct applied foundation model research and development for autonomous driving simulation, designing experiments with large deep learning models to solve open problems in behavior and agent modeling.

Role type

Senior Research Scientist (Foundation Models for Simulation)

Builds

Simulation environments and models for the Waymo Driver autonomous vehicle system

Domain

Autonomous driving, deep learning, generative AI

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

deep learning, behavior modeling, agent modeling, simulation, Python, JAX, TensorFlow 2, PyTorch, generative modeling, LLMs, VLMs

Preferred skills

reinforcement learning, model distillation, Transformer architectures, autoencoders, embeddings

Responsibilities

Conduct applied foundation model research and development, design and execute experiments training and evaluating large deep learning models, present research results to peers and leadership, write high quality code, unit tests, and documentation

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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