Staff Tech Lead, Machine Learning Engineer, Perception

Waymo · Mountain View, California, United States; San Francisco

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Company
Waymo
Location
Mountain View, California, United States; San Francisco
Salary
$251,000 — $310,000
Posted
December 9, 2025

About this job

In this hybrid role, you'll report to a Staff Technical Lead Manager. You will: Lead the design and development of multi-sensor, multi-task model architectures for dense and complete scene understanding with a focus on key tasks including object detection, occupancy prediction, road understanding, and trajectory planning. Architect and develop the foundational modeling libraries and software powering model development and experimentation. Design and implement scalable core model components, including sensor encoders, sensor fusion modules, backbones, and temporal aggregation / memory blocks. Adapt SOTA ML technologies to unique compute requirements, leading optimizations for latency, throughput, and memory to operate efficiently within strict compute budgets.…

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