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Senior Staff ML Engineer, Driver Understanding and Evaluation

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, United States

Status

Open

Posted

2025-12-05T21:22:47+00:00

Waymo's Driver Understanding and Evaluation ML team builds the machine-learning metrics and data systems used to evaluate the Waymo Driver. This senior staff role owns strategy for the next generation of ML-based evaluation metrics, trains and fine-tunes large generative models, designs reinforcement-learning algorithms and reward functions, and builds RLHF-style data collection and evaluation. It asks for a PhD or equivalent, 10+ years in ML focused on reinforcement learning, 2+ years managing people, and Python with JAX or TensorFlow. The role aligns evaluation strategy across several Waymo teams.