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Robot type
Autonomous Vehicle
Location
Mountain ViewCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Artificial Intelligence
Posted
Feb 6, 2026
Salary
$238,000–$302,000 a year
Full-time

Staff Machine Learning Engineer – VLM/LLM

Job description

The mission of the Waymo AI Foundations team is to develop machine learning solutions addressing open problems in autonomous driving, towards the goal of safely operating Waymo vehicles in dozens of cities and under all driving conditions. As part of our work, we also initiate and foster collaborations with other research teams in Alphabet. AI Foundations areas that we are currently focusing on include reinforcement learning, learning from demonstration, generative modeling, Bayesian inference, hierarchical learning, and robust evaluation.

This role follows a hybrid work schedule and you will report to a Senior Staff Software Engineer.

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with…

Job responsibilities

  • Work with a creative team of people who help to build the state-of-the-art Foundation Models that are used throughout Waymo’s systems, both onboard autonomous vehicles and offboard in simulation
  • Lead the development of end-to-end evaluation systems and benchmarks for Waymo Foundation models, encompassing the entire lifecycle from pretraining and supervised fine-tuning (SFT) to reinforcement learning (RL), for…
  • Partner within and across organizations to land disruptive and innovative tech in production
  • Implement and extend large large scale data and evaluation pipelines

Job requirements

  • Master’s degree or PhD degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
  • 5+ years of experience in ML engineering and applied Deep Learning, with a strong portfolio of shipped products or publication record
  • Experience with large scale distributed system
  • Proficient programming skills (eg: Python, C/C++)
  • Strong analytical and debugging skills
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