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Senior Manager AI Foundation Model

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You will own foundation and world-model strategy, including architecture selection, post-training, and capability roadmaps. You will lead model engineers, design constrained model interfaces, build evaluation and regression systems, establish uncertainty and out-of-distribution outputs, benchmark learned planning, and support certification-ready model decisions.

Responsibilities

  • Own foundation-model and world-model technical strategy
  • Lead and mentor world-model and post-training engineers
  • Design constrained model interfaces for the autonomy stack
  • Build evaluation harnesses, capability taxonomies, and regression suites
  • Establish uncertainty quantification and out-of-distribution detection outputs
  • Benchmark learned planning against rule-based behavior planning
  • Partner on certification-ready model design
  • Evaluate external research for adoption or development

Requirements

  • Degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Computer Engineering, Applied Math, or a related subject
  • 8+ years building AI systems
  • 3+ years leading technical teams or owning a major model program
  • Experience managing teams that ship AI-powered models into production
  • Experience with learned systems in physical real-time products
  • Expertise in world models, learned dynamics, planning or control sequence models, post-training, or constrained generation
  • Experience building evaluation harnesses
  • Strong PyTorch skills
  • Ability to reason about C++ real-time systems

Benefits

  • Catered lunches
  • Snacks and beverages
  • Health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Unlimited vacation
  • 401k matching

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