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Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Vision-Language Foundation Models

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, United States

Status

Open

Posted

2026-07-23T04:02:40+00:00

Waymo's Oracle Perception team seeks a staff machine learning engineer to lead vision-language foundation model work for autonomous driving. The role covers curating large-scale multimodal pre-training data, post-training with SFT and reinforcement learning methods such as DPO and PPO, and building inference and evaluation pipelines that autolabel edge cases. The posting asks for a master's degree, eight years of deep learning experience including three with LLMs or VLMs, and distributed training with FSDP, Megatron or JAX/Pax in Python, PyTorch or JAX. It describes a hybrid role.