Staff Machine Learning Engineer – VLM/LLM

Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; New York City

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Company
Waymo
Location
Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; New York City
Salary
$238,000 — $302,000
Posted
February 6, 2026

About this job

This role follows a hybrid work schedule and you will report to a Senior Staff Software Engineer. You will: Work with a creative team of people who help to build the state-of-the-art Foundation Models that are used throughout Waymo’s systems, both onboard autonomous vehicles and offboard in simulation Lead the development of end-to-end evaluation systems and benchmarks for Waymo Foundation models, encompassing the entire lifecycle from pretraining and supervised fine-tuning (SFT) to reinforcement learning (RL), for evaluating the quality, safety, and realism of embodied AI agents Partner within and across organizations to land disruptive and innovative tech in production Implement and extend large large scale data and evaluation pipelines You have: Master’s degree or PhD degree in Computer

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