Waymo
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, TLM , Labeling Automation
$251K–$310K
Mountain View, CA, USA +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Mar 19, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA, USA
Mountain View, California, United States - Experience
- 7+ years of professional software engineering and applied machine learning experience; 2+ years in direct people management, technical leadership, or leading engineering teams as a TL/TLM.
- Education
- B.S. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads the technical strategy and team responsible for automating data labeling pipelines and ensuring annotation quality for autonomous driving machine learning.
What you'll do
- Architect and deploy scalable auto-labeling pipelines, automated quality graders, and production computer vision models.
- Fine-tune and deploy vision-language and large language models for open-set labeling and contextual reasoning.
- Set technical direction and manage, mentor, and grow a team of machine learning engineers.
What they ask for
- B.S. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Deep computer vision experience building, evaluating, and deploying models for object detection, segmentation, and spatial tracking.
- Hands-on experience with large model training, distributed computing, and scaling deep learning architectures using PyTorch or TensorFlow.
- Proficiency in Python and/or C++, plus experience taking ML solutions from research through scaled production deployment.
Nice to have
- Experience building internal tooling for ML developers.
Pay
$251,000 — $310,000 USD base salary
Tools
SAM (Segment Anything Model), YOLO, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Python, C++, SFT, RL
AI focus
Train and deploy computer vision models, fine-tune VLMs and LLMs using prompt optimization and post-training techniques, and develop auto-labeling and automated annotation quality systems.
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