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Machine Learning Engineer Perception LLM/VLM (PhD, New Grad)

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

2025-12-22T23:35:42+00:00

Waymo's Perception team is hiring a machine learning engineer to build large-scale continual pre-training pipelines for VLM foundation models used in autonomous driving. The work covers integrating new multimodal sensor data into existing models, evaluating transferability metrics, and moving research into production. The posting asks for 5+ years of ML experience with LLM/VLM pre-training and continual learning, strong Python and Jax, TensorFlow or PyTorch skills, and production training, evaluation and deployment experience. Preferred: autonomous driving or robotics fine-tuning and multimodal data curation. On-site in Mountain View or San Francisco.