Senior Research Scientist, Foundation Model for Simulation
$204,000–$259,000 year
Hybrid · San Francisco, California, United States or Mountain View Santa Clara County, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States or Mountain View Santa Clara County, California, United StatesHybridFull Time$204,000–$259,000 yearSenior LevelMasters DegreeAutonomous DrivingEnterprise
Type
Full Time
Level
Senior Level
Education
Masters Degree
Company size
Enterprise
Industry
Autonomous Driving
Job Summary
Conduct applied foundation model research and development; design experiments by training and evaluating large deep learning models; present results to peers and leadership; write high quality code, unit tests, and documentation.
Required Qualifications
- Masters or PhD in deep learning in behavior and agent modeling or simulation
- Proficiency in Python
- 3+ years of experience with modern deep learning frameworks (prefer JAX or TensorFlow 2; PyTorch acceptable)
- Experience in generative modeling and LLMs or VLMs (e.g., Gemini, Llama, GPT)
- Post-training experience (reinforcement learning)
- Distillation
- Transformer models
- Autoencoders and embeddings
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