Pooya Jannaty

Director of Engineering

Mountain View, California, United States18 yrs 2 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in generative AI and multimodal learning.
Proven leadership in delivering AI systems to production.
Strong foundation in software architecture and machine learning.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AI and machine learning, specializing in automotive and semiconductor industries.

Contact

pjannaty@nvidia.com LinkedIn

Skills

Other Skills

AlgorithmsMatlabParallel ProgrammingGeneric ProgrammingMathematical ModelingSemiconductor PhysicsQuantum MechanicsQuantum Field TheoryDevice ModelingSynopsys SentaurusNumerical SimulationSemiconductor FabricationObject Oriented DesignSimulationsPartial Differential Equations

About

Experienced engineering manager at the forefront of generative AI, leading high-impact teams across multimodal learning, diffusion models, and large-scale infrastructure. With a strong foundation in software architecture, machine learning, and numerical modeling, I bring a deep technical background combined with proven leadership in delivering cutting-edge AI systems to production. I manage cross-functional teams of research and ML engineers, driving innovation in Cosmos foundation models, synthetic data generation, and intelligent simulation. My work bridges academic rigor and practical engineering, grounded in a Ph.D. from Brown University and an early career in robotics, quantum physics, and computational science. Specialties: • Generative AI (diffusion, transformers, VLMs) • Technical team leadership & cross-org collaboration • Large-scale ML infrastructure & training systems • Python, C++, PyTorch, CUDA • Scalable simulation, optimization, and modeling

Experience

18 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs

Current Experience

Nvidia

3 roles

Director, Generative AI & World Models

Promoted

Mar 2026 – Present · 2 mos

Cosmos Model SW, Generative AI

Promoted

Oct 2023 – Mar 2026 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Senior Manager, TensorFlow and OpenXLA Software Engineering

May 2022 – Oct 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos

Waymo

Senior Software Engineer, Tech Lead

Aug 2020 – May 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos

Waymo Research: Deep Learning, Autoregressive Models, Deep Search
Waymo Planner: ML-based trajectory optimization
Behavior Prediction: Inverse Reinforcement Learning

Cruise

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2019 – Aug 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo · San Francisco, California

Motion Planning
Model-predictive control
High-resolution trajectory planning
Advanced obstacle avoidance techniques
Software architecture
Recruiting, mentoring and coaching

Synopsys inc

2 roles

Senior Staff R&D Engineer, Manager, Tech Lead

May 2019 – Jul 2019 · 2 mos · Mountain View, California

Staff R&D Engineer, Manager, Tech Lead

Aug 2017 – May 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos · Mountain View, California

Manage a team of software engineers and lead research and development of Technology Computer-Aided Design (TCAD) tools to enable quantum-field simulation and design of superconducting electronics (SCE).

Silvaco inc

2 roles

Senior Device Simulation Software Engineer

Jan 2017 – Aug 2017 · 7 mos

Device Simulation Software Engineer

Aug 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos

Develop quantum device models and design, develop, troubleshoot and maintain nano-device simulation software required to study the next generation of quantum semiconductor and optical devices.
Designed and developed a general-purpose finite-element mixed scalar-vector partial-differential equation (PDE) solver, capable of parsing arbitrary 2D and 3D PDEs into highly-efficient symbolic form and solving them on arbitrary device geometry, element shape, element order, and under mixed boundary conditions.
Designed and developed a quantum well solver module, capable of automatically analyzing curved geometries and generating the fibre bundle of the equivalent device region manifold, as well as computing the optical transition spectrum of the resulting quantum wells.

Elysium digital, llc (a stroz friedberg company)

Consulting Expert

Aug 2012 – Jul 2015 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Boston, MA

Provide highly technical consultation in the areas of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering to multi-billion dollar companies in litigation.

Brown university

Research Assistant

Sep 2007 – May 2012 · 4 yrs 8 mos · Providence, Rhode Island

Develop complex multithreaded numerical software incorporating nonequilibrium transport Green’s functions, multidimensional Markov queues, partial differential equations, electromagnetism and probability theory.
Design and fabricate quantum nano-devices including germanium tunneling field-effect transistors (TFETs), homogenous and heterogenous nanowires, metal-oxide-semiconductor FETs (MOSFETs), and fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) devices.