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Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Maneuvering Tech

Waymo - Mountain View, CA, USA, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, PA - original posting ->
Status
Open
Remote policy
Not stated
Employment type
Not stated
Salary
251,000-310,000 USD / hour
Categories
Planner (7LU)
Tech
cpppythonmlstaff
Source
waymo
First observed
2026-08-19 07:55 UTC
Last seen
2026-10-02 00:10 UTC
Source claims posted
2026-06-11 16:37 UTC
Consecutive misses
0 of 3

What the posting says

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 Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.

Driver Refinement and Validation’s (DRV) mission is to build upon the high-quality ML Driver developed by Driver Intelligence, refining its performance to improve autonomous driving in specific, complex real-world contexts and problem areas (e.g., Ride-Hailing contexts). It aims to ensure that the Waymo Driver always computes safe, compliant, comfortable, and useful plans. As an Engineer in DRV, you will bridge the gap between cutting-edge machine learning and real-world vehicle performance, engineering the validation and onboard systems that ensure the autonomous vehicle reliably executes intelligent and predictable maneuvers.

You will:

Develop next-generation, ML-powered systems that enhance the capabilities of the ML driver and accelerate the rapid scaling of Waymo’s business

Fine-tune, adapt, and benchmark state-of-the-art generative models to improve autonomous vehicle perception, motion prediction, and trajectory planning

Write high-quality, scalable, and thoroughly tested code to bring cutting-edge ML into production

Partner with world-class engineers and product managers to deliver safe and smooth autonomous vehicle behaviors

You have:

MS in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

8+ years of industry experience deploying, evaluating, and maintaining ML-based systems in real-world, production environments

Proficient programming skills in Python and/or C++, coupled with strong analytical and debugging abilities

Expertise with modern deep learning frameworks, such as JAX or PyTorch

We prefer:

Experience in deep learning, reinforcement learning, and ML systems

Domain expertise in solving prediction, behaviors, motion planning, or related robotics problems

ML post-training experience

Prior industry experience (e.g. internships) in applied ML or software development

Publications in top-tier conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICRA, IROS, RSS, CoRL, ACL, or EMNLP)

The expected hourly rate for this full-time position is listed below. Interns are also eligible to participate in the Company’s generous benefits programs, subject to eligibility requirements.

Hourly PhD Pay

$251,000—$310,000 USD

Quality

Completeness: 80%
Honesty: 100%

Based on 9 observation(s).

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    #177502 2026-08-19 07:55 UTC
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    #311931 2026-08-23 23:29 UTC
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      Not stated->Hybrid
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      251,000-310,000 USD->251,000-310,000 USD / year
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    • Title
      Staff Software Engineer, Planner->Staff Software Engineer, Manuevering Tech
    • Locations
      Mountain View, California, San Francisco, California, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania->Mountain View, CA, USA, San Francisco, CA, USA, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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    #947434 2026-09-23 14:39 UTC
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    • Description
      Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google...->Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google...
    • Salary range
      251,000-310,000 USD / year->251,000-310,000 USD / hour
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    #1123421 2026-10-02 00:10 UTC
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    • Title
      Staff Software Engineer, Manuevering Tech->Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Maneuvering Tech
    • Description
      Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google...->Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google...
    • Remote policy
      Hybrid->Not stated
    • source_updated_at
      2026-09-23T09:56:04-04:00->2026-10-01T18:05:50-04:00