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Machine Learning Engineer, Perception

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

Company

Waymo

Location

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

Status

Open

Posted

2026-09-18T17:08:17+00:00

Waymo's perception ML group owns end-to-end driving behaviour for clusters of on-road problems. The engineer develops machine-learning methods and training recipes for large-scale real-world driving data, including distributed fine-tuning, regression avoidance, evaluation metrics, and production monitoring, plus tooling to debug model behaviour. The posting asks for a bachelor's in computer science or equivalent deep-learning experience, three or more years in machine learning or computer vision, Python or C++, and PyTorch or JAX; a master's, PhD, or top-conference publications are preferred. Base pay is $175,000–$215,000.