Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Simulation

Waymo
Mountain View, CA, USA / New York, NY, USA / Mountain View (US-MTV-EMF680), Mountain View, California, United States2025-12-08

About the job

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. The Driver Understanding and Evaluation team at Waymo develops a rich understanding of Waymo Driver's behavior. The learned metrics team uses machine learning to ensure we can scale to meet Waymo's goals. We collaborate across teams to bring ML to production systems and build what is Waymo's reward function. We build and operate large-scale machine learning and data systems, simulation workflows, and insight tools. We combine expert human judgements and advanced machine learning models to deliver training and evaluation data for the Waymo driver. We are looking for researchers and software engineers who are passionate about developing production grade machine learning systems for our autonomous vehicles and have an incessant drive to improve the performance of our technology stack.

Responsibilities

Report into the TLM for the Learned Metrics Team

Develop ML models that assess our autonomous vehicle's behavior.

Develop ML infrastructure to support performant models.

Collaborate across teams to bring state-of-the-art to production.

Qualifications

Minimum

BS in Computer Science, Robotics, Statistics, Physics, Math or another quantitative area, or equivalent work experience

2+ years of experience building productionized ML models

Code and design skills: comfort building production systems (Python / C++)

Background in applied Deep Learning

A track record in improving model quality

Preferred

4+ years of experience building productionized ML models

Experience in reinforcement learning, transfer learning, or learning.

Experience with large scale data and models