Senior Research Scientist, Foundation Model (LLM/VLM)

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$204K-$259K Verified - from the job posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

99% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

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Public-company Verified - from the job posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Senior Research Scientist, Foundation Model (LLM/VLM) Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver™-to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. The mission of the Waymo Applied Research team is to develop machine learning solutions addressing open problems in autonomous driving, towards the goal of the safely operating Waymo vehicles in dozens of cities and under all driving conditions. As part of our work, we also initiate and foster collaborations with other research teams in Alphabet. In this hybrid role you will report to a Technical Lead Manager. You will: - Conduct applied foundation model research and development - Design compelling experiments by training and evaluating large deep learning models - Present results to peers and leadership - Write high quality code, unit tests, and documentation You have: - Masters or PhD in deep learning in behavior and agent modeling or simulation - Proficiency in Python

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