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Staff 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

2026-06-26T21:37:46+00:00

Waymo's Simulation Team is hiring a staff machine learning engineer to make simulated environments realistic enough to test and train the Waymo Driver. The role focuses on data quality: building models that detect and correct problems in labeled perception data from multi-modal sensors, analyzing labeling pipelines, and agreeing quality standards with perception and simulation teams. The posting asks for an MS or BS, 5+ (L5) or 7+ (L6) years in applied deep learning, a computer vision or sensor fusion background, and Python with TensorFlow or PyTorch. Listed pay is $251,000–$310,000.