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Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Multimodal 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, California, USA

Status

Open

Posted

2026-08-31T21:09:27+00:00

Waymo's Special Vehicle Compliance team is hiring a senior machine learning engineer for multimodal perception, focused on how autonomous vehicles interpret high-stakes road actors. The work covers multi-task deep learning across camera, LiDAR and audio streams, high-resolution vision and spatio-temporal transformer backbones, automated data mining, active learning and auto-labeling pipelines, and profiling models for onboard accelerator inference. The posting asks for 2–5+ years deploying production vision or multimodal models, sensor fusion, multi-task learning, PyTorch or JAX, and large-scale data curation experience. Base pay is $213,000–$263,000.