# Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Scenes, Traffic Controls 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: Senior
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States, San Francisco, California, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-22
- Apply by: 2026-12-06
- Apply: https://careers.withwaymo.com/jobs?gh_jid=8212626&utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/waymo-machine-learning-engineer-scenes/

## About the role

Driver Refinement and Validation’s (DRV) mission is to build upon the high-quality ML Driver developed by Driver Intelligence, refining its performance to improve autonomous driving in specific, complex real-world contexts and problem areas (e.g., Ride-Hailing contexts). It aims to ensure that the Waymo Driver always computes safe, compliant, comfortable, and useful plans. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- BS/MS/PhD in CS, EE, Robotics, ML, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Hands-on experience shipping ML models to production, including training, offline evaluation, and deployment (L4: 2+ yrs, L5: 4+ yrs, or a PhD plus 2+ yrs)
- Strong data mining / data engineering: building large-scale batch pipelines (Beam/Flume/Spark or similar) and analytical SQL to find, slice, and curate data
- Proficiency in Python with a modern DL framework (JAX, TensorFlow, or PyTorch) and production C++
- Demonstrated cross-stack generalist work: has owned problems that crossed data, model, and systems/serving boundaries
- Rigorous evaluation instincts: metric design, error analysis and slicing, and A/B or staged rollout

Tags: Driver Refinement + Validation (7LU)

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