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Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, LLM/VLM Model Architecture & Optimization

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 Experi

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Company

Waymo

Location

Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA

Status

Open

Posted

2026-06-22T22:49:02+00:00

Waymo's Perception team is hiring a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to design LLM and VLM model architectures and align them with hardware. The work covers on-device inference optimization under memory, power and compute limits, plus collaboration with research, software, hardware and product teams. The posting asks for 7+ years in machine learning, large-scale foundation-model training, deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch or JAX, and a master's degree. Preferred: multimodal data curation, autonomous vehicle perception background, and top-tier publications.