Staff ML Engineer, Perception Research

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

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Company
Waymo
Location
Mountain View, CA, USA ; New York City, NY, USA ; Kirkland, WA, USA ; San Francisco
Salary
$251,000 — $310,000
Posted
August 7, 2026

About this job

Conduct comprehensive experimentation to train and deploy state-of-the-art Multimodal LLMs and World models to perform 3D Perception using sensor information from Camera, LiDAR and Radar.. Partner effectively with engineering and research teams across Waymo to deploy new models, and implement efficient workflows for model development and continuous training on new front-filled data. Apply and develop techniques such as quantization, pruning, knowledge distillation, and efficient attention mechanisms. Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines for Training & Eval to process data from multiple sources. Design and implement evaluation frameworks for perception models. Develop infrastructure for large-scale model distillation and bulk-inference pipelines for teacher models.…

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