Waymo
Staff TLM, Perception, Sensor Pipelines
$251K–$310K
Mountain View, CA, USA +3 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Feb 9, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA, USA
San Francisco, CA, USA
Mountain View, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 8+ years of industry experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s in Computer Science or a similar discipline, or an equivalent amount of deep learning experience.
About the job
Manages a team building machine-learning perception pipelines, especially models that estimate weather conditions around autonomous vehicles, and leads delivery, planning, and collaboration with downstream teams.
What you'll do
- Manage, develop, and hire software and machine-learning engineers; build a high-performing team.
- Guide ML solution design and collaborate with downstream teams on requirements and product roadmaps.
- Set team OKRs and plans, make staffing and technical decisions, and drive roadmap execution and project delivery.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s in Computer Science or a similar discipline, or an equivalent amount of deep learning experience.
- Experience managing software engineers and managers of software engineers.
- General experience in ML and hands-on experience managing and leading ML projects.
Nice to have
- MS or PhD in Computer Science or a similar discipline, or an equivalent amount of deep learning experience; experience with sensing hardware or self-driving/robotics.
- Publications at top-tier conferences such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICLR, ICML, ICRA, IROS, RSS, NeurIPS, AAAI, IJCV, or PAMI.
Pay
$251,000 — $310,000 USD base salary
Tools
Machine Learning, deep learning
AI focus
Develop ML models for estimating vehicle-surrounding weather conditions, including models that work in low-data regimes such as few-shot learning.
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