Waymo
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Multimodal Perception
$213K–$263K
Mountain View, California, USA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 31, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, California, USA
Mountain View, California, United States - Experience
- 2–5+ years training and deploying production vision or multimodal deep learning models.
About the job
Builds multimodal perception models and data systems that help autonomous vehicles understand road actors and safely respond to them.
What you'll do
- Architect, train, and optimize multimodal, multitask deep learning models across sensor streams.
- Build data-mining, active-learning, hard-example curation, and auto-labeling systems.
- Develop vision and transformer architectures and optimize models for onboard inference.
What they ask for
- Experience with multimodal sensor fusion (Camera + LiDAR + Audio), multitask learning, transformer architectures, and PyTorch / JAX.
- Experience building large-scale data curation pipelines, active-learning loops, and auto-labeling systems.
- Fluency with modern AI developer tools and foundation-model workflows for rapid prototyping.
Pay
$213,000 — $263,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
PyTorch, JAX, Camera, LiDAR, Audio
AI focus
Develops multimodal perception and foundation-model workflows for automated data curation, synthetic edge-case generation, and failure triage.
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