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Waymo

Robot type
Autonomous Vehicle
Location
Mountain ViewCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Artificial Intelligence
Posted
Dec 9, 2025
Salary
$251,000–$310,000 a year
Full-time

Staff Tech Lead, Machine Learning Engineer, Perception

Job description

The Perception team builds the system which learns the spatial-temporal representation and their semantic meanings of the surrounding environment of the self-driving car, i.e., the system that “perceives” the world around the car. We work jointly with downstream teams on the optimization and integration into the Waymo Driver. We conduct our own research to address real-world problems and collaborate with research teams at Alphabet.

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…

Job responsibilities

  • Lead the design and development of multi-sensor, multi-task model architectures for dense and complete scene understanding with a focus on key tasks including object detection, occupancy prediction, road understanding,…
  • Architect and develop the foundational modeling libraries and software powering model development and experimentation.
  • Design and implement scalable core model components, including sensor encoders, sensor fusion modules, backbones, and temporal aggregation / memory blocks.
  • Adapt SOTA ML technologies to unique compute requirements, leading optimizations for latency, throughput, and memory to operate efficiently within strict compute budgets.
  • Drive rapid prototyping by building and maintaining flexible pipelines and development environments for fast iteration on novel model designs, enabling seamless integration of field advancements and in-depth analysis…

Job requirements

  • Bachelors in Computer Science or a similar discipline, or an equivalent amount of deep learning experience
  • 7+ years experience in Machine Learning and/or Computer Vision
  • Strong expertise in Python and C++ and a solid software engineering background
  • Experience with ML frameworks like PyTorch, JAX, or Tensorflow
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