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Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Vehicle Interaction & Behavior Policy ML

Waymo · Mountain View, California, USA · Mountain View (US-MTV-EMF680)

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Roboticsonsitesenior$213k–$263k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build learned driving policies bridging perception and planning for autonomy.
  • Release robust policies for complex navigation and yielding scenarios at scale.
  • Advance shift from rule-based heuristics to scalable data-driven driving policies.

What they offer

  • Annual bonus program
  • Equity incentive plan
  • Company benefits program

Ideal candidate

An autonomy-minded ML engineer with 2-5+ years shipping real-world models who thrives at the perception-planning intersection and cares about safe, scalable learned driving behavior.

Requirements

  • 2-5+ years experience training and releasing ML models in autonomous driving, robotics, or complex spatial AI
  • Hands-on experience working across both perception and planning stacks
  • Proficiency in learned driving policies (RL / imitation learning), PyTorch / JAX, closed-loop simulator evaluation, and track record of releasing models to production
  • Familiarity with Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models and World Models is a strong plus
  • Experience using foundation models and AI tools for scenario generation, evaluation analysis, and rapid experimentation

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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