Waymo
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USD 213000-263000/yr

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Multimodal Perception

United StatesUnited States·Mountain View
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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,

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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.

The Special Vehicle Compliance team develops the multi-modal perception, semantic reasoning, and driving intelligence that enables the autonomous vehicle to safely interact with high-stakes road actors. We are actively advancing our systems toward data-driven learned policies and end-to-end architectures, powered by large-scale closed-loop data engines.

In this hybrid role, you will report to the Technical Lead Manager of the Special Vehicle Compliance team.

  • Develop, evaluate, and release learned driving policies for complex navigation and yielding scenarios.
  • Work cross-functionally at the intersection of perception and planning, translating multi-modal perception outputs into robust behavioral actions.
  • Deploy learned models into closed-loop simulation environments, benchmark against strict safety metrics, and drive the transition of these models into production releases.
  • Advance the transition from rule-based heuristics to scalable, data-driven learned policies.
  • 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 a 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.

The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. 

Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. 

Salary Range
$213,000$263,000 USD

Location & Eligibility

Where is the job
Mountain View, United States
On-site at the office
Who can apply
US

Listing Details

Posted
August 31, 2026
First seen
September 1, 2026
Last seen
September 1, 2026

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September 1, 2026

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Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with a mission to make transportation safe and accessible through self-driving solutions.

Employees
3k+
Founded
2016
Domain
waymo.com
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WaymoSenior Machine Learning Engineer, Multimodal PerceptionUSD 213000-263000