Senior Research Scientist, Ai Foundations Recipes

Senior Research Scientist at Waymo focused on AI Foundations Recipes. This hybrid role involves partnering with foundation model training teams to optimize data mixtures, training curricula, and objectives. The scientist will design global-scale pipelines for data updates, develop data-selection algorithms, and run empirical studies to link pre-training data composition to downstream performance.

Skills and focus areas

• machine learning
• reinforcement learning
• learning from demonstration
• generative modeling
• bayesian inference
• hierarchical learning
• robust evaluation
• data pipelines
• data selection algorithms
• influence estimation
• proxy models
• gradient similarity search