# Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Multimodal 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: Senior
- Location: Mountain View, California, USA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-31
- Apply by: 2026-10-15
- Apply: https://careers.withwaymo.com/jobs?gh_jid=8157152
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/waymo-senior-machine-learning-engineer-multimodal-perception/

## About the role

In this hybrid role, you will report to the Technical Lead Manager of the Special Vehicle Compliance team.

## What they're looking for

- 2–5+ years training and deploying production vision or multi-modal deep learning models
- Experience with multi-modal sensor fusion (Camera + LiDAR + Audio), multi-task learning (MTL), transformer architectures, and PyTorch / JAX
- Experience building large-scale data curation pipelines, active learning loops, and auto-labeling systems
- Fluency with modern AI developer tools and foundation model workflows for fast prototyping

Tags: Perception (7LT)