Waymo
Staff Tech Lead Manager, Machine Learning, Simulator Evaluation
$251K–$310K
Mountain View, California, United States +2 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 17, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States.
Mountain View, California, United States - Experience
- 3+ years of hands-on technical leadership; 7+ years building, deploying, and optimizing production ML systems.
- Education
- Degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads an applied machine learning team building simulator evaluation systems and AI-powered tools to assess World Model quality and support the safety and performance of Waymo’s autonomous fleet.
What you'll do
- Lead and guide an applied ML team building evaluation frameworks, infrastructure, and tooling.
- Set technical direction and develop ML-driven metrics to identify anomalies and edge cases across large datasets.
- Partner with product, program, research, simulation, and engineering teams to deploy evaluation solutions in production systems.
What they ask for
- Degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3+ years of hands-on technical leadership managing and guiding engineering teams of 5–10 people.
- 7+ years building, deploying, and optimizing machine learning systems in production environments.
- Proficiency in Python and/or C++; experience with PyTorch, JAX, or Tensorflow; and ability to design robust evaluation frameworks.
Nice to have
- M.S. or PhD. in Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, or a related quantitative field.
- Experience with large-scale generative models, GPU/TPU clusters, MLOps systems, or AI-powered products and developer tools.
Pay
$251,000 — $310,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, C++, PyTorch, JAX, Tensorflow, GPU/TPU
AI focus
Builds AI-powered simulator evaluation tools and frameworks for World Model understanding and quality assessment, including evaluation of generative models.
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