Waymo
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Vehicle Interaction & Behavior Policy ML
$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; no alternatives stated.
About the job
Trains, evaluates, and releases learned driving policies that connect perception to planning for safe autonomous navigation.
What you'll do
- Develop, evaluate, and release learned policies for complex navigation and yielding scenarios.
- Translate multi-modal perception outputs into behavioral actions and evaluate models in closed-loop simulation against safety metrics.
- Transition learned models into production and advance data-driven policies beyond rule-based heuristics.
What they ask for
- 2–5+ years of experience training and releasing ML models in autonomous driving, robotics, or complex spatial AI.
- Hands-on experience across perception and planning stacks.
- Proficiency in learned driving policies (RL / imitation learning), PyTorch / JAX, and closed-loop simulator evaluation.
- Track record of releasing models to production.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models and World Models.
- Experience using foundation models and AI tools for scenario generation, evaluation analysis, and rapid experimentation.
Pay
$213,000 — $263,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
RL, imitation learning, PyTorch, JAX, closed-loop simulator
AI focus
Develops and deploys learned driving policies; uses foundation models and AI tools for scenario generation, evaluation analysis, and experimentation.
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