Sr Staff Tech Lead, Machine Learning Engineer, Perception

Waymo · Mountain View, California, San Francisco

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Company: Waymo
Location: Mountain View, California, San Francisco
Salary: $298,000 — $368,000
Posted: September 1, 2026

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In this hybrid role, you'll report to a Senior Staff Technical Lead Manager. You will: Set the long-term technical roadmap for next-generation multi-modal perception architectures, driving paradigm shifts in multi-task learning, spatial-temporal modeling, and scene representation. Architect unified, scalable representations combining diverse sensor modalities across heterogeneous sensor suites. Lead cross-functional initiatives across Perception and Planner and partner with hardware and infrastructure teams to optimize foundational architectures for onboard requirements. Mentor ML engineers and foster an engineering culture of rapid prototyping and rigorous benchmarking. You have: BS or MS in Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, or equivalent practical experience.…

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