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Machine Learning Engineer, Simulation Realism

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

Status

Open

Posted

2025-03-13T16:54:13+00:00

Waymo's Simulator Team is hiring an ML engineer to build ultra-realistic simulations that test and train the Waymo Driver. The work covers foundation models for embodied agents, generative AI for simulation realism, and reinforcement learning for long-horizon credit assignment, alongside infrastructure for running counterfactual scenarios. The posting asks for 5+ years of ML software engineering, 5+ years of Python, and frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow or JAX/Flax; C++ production experience and large-scale GPU/TPU training are preferred. Base salary is $213,000–$263,000.