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Staff ML Engineer, Perception Research

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; New York City, NY, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA

Status

Open

Posted

2026-08-07T23:27:50+00:00

Waymo's AI Foundations team is hiring a staff machine learning engineer for perception research, reporting to a principal research scientist. The work covers training and deploying multimodal LLMs and world models for 3D perception from camera, LiDAR and radar data, plus quantization, pruning, distillation, evaluation frameworks and large-scale inference infrastructure. The posting asks for a PhD or master's with 4+ years in reinforcement learning or foundation models, distributed training experience, and proficiency in JAX and Flax. It lists four possible US locations and a hybrid schedule.