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Staff Machine Learning Engineer – VLM/LLM

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; New York City, NY, USA

Status

Open

Posted

2026-02-06T20:53:39+00:00

Waymo's AI Foundations team is hiring a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to build and evaluate foundation models used onboard vehicles and in simulation. The role leads development of end-to-end evaluation systems and benchmarks across pretraining, supervised fine-tuning, and reinforcement learning, covering quality, safety, and realism for embodied AI agents. It involves large-scale data and evaluation pipelines and production partnerships. The posting asks for a Master's or PhD, 5+ years in ML and deep learning, distributed-system experience, and Python or C/C++. Preferred: ML infrastructure, LLM/VLM or RL depth, and framework internals.