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Principal Software Engineer, Post Training

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

2026-08-24T23:25:01+00:00

Waymo's Onboard Software team is hiring a principal software engineer to lead strategy for a next-generation post-training system built on existing large-scale models used by the autonomous driver. The work includes advancing post-training techniques in the onboard AI, keeping up with post-training research, and guiding other teams toward effective post-training. The posting asks for a master's in computer science (PhD preferred), 10+ years leading large-scale machine-learned production systems, and prior ownership of a production post-training system serving 100M+ users; it prefers experience building a post-training platform from scratch.