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Waymo

Robot type
Autonomous Vehicle
Location
Mountain ViewCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Artificial Intelligence
Posted
Jul 25, 2025
Salary
$238,000–$302,000 a year
Full-time

Staff Technical Lead Manager, ML Sensor Validation

Job description

The Perception Team at Waymo builds the system that "sees" the world around the self-driving car. We conduct novel research to address real-world perception problems and collaborate with research teams at Alphabet. Here at Waymo, we have access to millions of miles of driving data from a diverse set of sensors, enabling researchers like you to develop complex models and techniques at scale. Improvements deployed to our system can immediately advance our large fleet of autonomous vehicles. Within Perception, the Sensor Health team's job is to make sure that sensors "just work" for the entire self-driving car software stack.

In this hybrid remote/in-office role, you will report to a Senior…

Job responsibilities

  • Lead and build a team of ML engineers in charge of reliable sensing anomaly detection and calibration
  • Build a data flywheel to automatically generate suitable training data for rare instance sensor degradation events using VLMs
  • Own the entire sensor validation stack end to end
  • Drive and accelerate collaborations between perception, system engineering, evaluation, and Alphabet teams

Job requirements

  • MS in Computer Science, Robotics, Math, Physics or equivalent industry experience
  • 6+ years of experience in designing, training, and deploying ML-driven real-time robotics systems
  • 4+ years of experience leading technical teams and setting technical directions
  • 2+ years of people management experience
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