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Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Computer Vision/VLM

Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA · Mountain View (US-MTV-EMF680)

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Roboticsonsitesenior$213k–$263k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build massive-scale offboard perception autolabels to train the AV stack.
  • Create systems that generate rich scene understanding from driving logs.
  • Own captioning systems from prototyping to massive-scale production.

What they offer

  • Discretionary annual bonus program
  • Equity incentive plan
  • Generous Company benefits program

Ideal candidate

An autonomous, research-driven ML engineer who loves taking complex perception ideas from prototype to massive-scale production and collaborating across teams to advance safe autonomy.

Requirements

  • Master's degree in Computer Science or related technical field
  • 4+ years hands-on experience training and shipping deep learning models for computer vision tasks
  • 1+ years experience working with LLMs or VLMs including fine-tuning, prompting, or RAG
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals designing scalable and reliable systems
  • Experience building and managing large-scale data processing pipelines for ML training
  • Proven ability to work autonomously and lead complex technical projects in fast-paced R&D environment

Lab profile

About Waymo

Autonomous driving technology company building the Waymo Driver for fully autonomous ride-hailing.

What they build

  • Waymo Driver
  • Fully autonomous ride-hail service

Known for

  • Large-scale driving simulation
  • Simulation realism
  • Quantitative evaluations
  • Onboard autonomy models

Key facts

  • Founded in 2009
  • Started as the Google Self-Driving Car Project
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