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Staff Tech Lead, Machine Learning Engineer, 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, United States; San Francisco, California, United States

Status

Open

Posted

2025-12-09T18:49:15+00:00

Waymo's Perception team is hiring a staff machine-learning engineer to lead work on the models that read the world around its self-driving cars. The role covers multi-sensor, multi-task architectures for object detection, occupancy prediction, road understanding and trajectory planning, plus the libraries, sensor encoders, fusion modules and temporal memory blocks behind them, with optimization for tight onboard compute. Requirements include a computer science degree or equivalent deep-learning experience, 7+ years in ML or computer vision, strong Python and C++, and a framework such as PyTorch, JAX or TensorFlow.