# Machine Learning Engineer, Perception at Waymo

- Company: Waymo
- What the company does: Waymo—formerly the Google self-driving car project—makes it safe and easy for people & things to get around with autonomous vehicles. Take a ride now. Backed by Bessemer, Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia.
- Company website: https://waymo.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-18
- Apply by: 2026-11-02
- Apply: https://careers.withwaymo.com/jobs?gh_jid=8212478
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/waymo-machine-learning-engineer-perception/

## About the role

Our goal is to improve the Waymo Driver performance by owning the end-to-end driving behavior for various onroad problems clusters. We work with upstream and the downstream teams on developing the ML models and integrating into the Waymo Driver.

## What they're looking for

- Bachelors in Computer Science or a similar discipline, or an equivalent amount of deep learning experience
- 3+ years experience in Machine Learning and/or Computer Vision
- Experience with Python or C++
- Experience with ML frameworks like PyTorch or JAX

Tags: Perception (7LT)