Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Vision-Language Foundation Models

Waymo · Mountain View

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Company
Waymo
Location
Mountain View
Salary
$251,000 — $310,000
Posted
July 23, 2026

About this job

The Team & Mission: In the Oracle Perception team, our mission is to build the ultimate cognitive engine for autonomous driving. We are pioneering the use of large multimodal foundation models (e.g., Gemini) to build a powerful offboard reasoning and data flywheel system. We are moving beyond traditional perception to true scene understanding and driving actions—building offboard models that can comprehend complex driving problems, predict object/scene dynamics, and deduce driving paths with logical rationale. Our core focus is advancing the VLM foundation itself. By pushing the boundaries of multimodal pre-training and state-of-the-art post-training (SFT, RL), we are creating models capable of rich, reasoning-based autolabeling at a massive scale.…

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