Machine Learning Engineer, Scenes
Waymo · Mountain View, California, United States, San Francisco, California, United States
About this role
**Waymo — Machine Learning Engineer (Scenes)** Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world’s most trusted driver. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can be applied across vehicle platforms and product use cases. **Driver Refinement and Validation (DRV)** focuses on refining the high-quality ML Driver developed by Driver Intelligence—improving performance in specific, complex real-world contexts (e.g., ride-hailing). As an Engineer in DRV, you’ll bridge cutting-edge machine learning and real-world vehicle performance by building validation and onboard systems that help the autonomous vehicle reliably execute safe, compliant, comfortable, and useful maneuvers. --- ### What you will do - Develop next-generation, ML-powered systems that enhance the ML driver and accelerate 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 ### What you have - MS in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or related field (or equivalent practical experience) - Hands-on experience deploying, evaluating, and maintaining ML-based systems in real-world, production environments - Proficient programming skills in Python and/or C++, with strong analytical and debugging abilities - Expertise with modern deep learning frameworks (e.g., JAX or PyTorch) ### We prefer - Experience in deep learning, reinforcement learning, and ML systems - 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, EMNLP) - Domain expertise in motion planning, prediction, or related robotics problems --- ### Salary Range (US) - **$175,000 — $215,000 USD** (base salary) Actual starting pay depends on job-related factors including location, experience, relevant training/education, and skill level. Waymo employees may also be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus, equity incentives, and benefits (subject to eligibility requirements).
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