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Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Tech Lead, Labeling Automation

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

2026-03-19T22:38:53+00:00

Waymo's Labeling team wants a staff engineer to lead technical strategy for automating data labeling. The person will build auto-labeling pipelines, auto-graders for annotation quality, and train and deploy computer-vision models — SAM, YOLO, bespoke 3D perception — plus fine-tune vision-language models with SFT and RL. The posting asks for 8+ years in software engineering and applied ML, C++ or Python, distributed training with PyTorch or TensorFlow, and full lifecycle deployment. The job is hybrid, based in Mountain View, and pays $251,000–$310,000.