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Director, Foundation Model Data Recipes

Mountain View (US-MTV-EMF680)💼 Full-time💰 $349,000–$349,000🗓 2026-07-20 → 2026-08-01

Core

Own data recipes for Waymo's Foundation World Model pre-training and post-training, leading teams to build a data flywheel from massive driving data.

Role type

Director, Foundation Model Data Recipes

Builds

Foundation World Model pre-training and post-training pipelines, data flywheel for autonomous driving

Domain

Autonomous driving, Foundation Models, Reinforcement Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Data recipe design, clustering, filtering, de-duplication, long-tail data mining, team leadership of research scientists and engineers, rigorous ablation studies, data mix optimization, RL recipe development

Preferred skills

Large-scale foundation model data expertise, Data-centric AI, Multimodal learning

Technologies

Reinforcement Learning, Generative Modeling, Bayesian Inference, Hierarchical Learning

Responsibilities

Own data recipe for pre-training and post-training, lead team to build data flywheel, integrate emerging research for ablations, partner with engineering and research teams to share techniques

Seniority

Director, hands-on IC with team leadership

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