# Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Vehicle Interaction & Behavior Policy ML 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=8157298
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/waymo-senior-machine-learning-engineer-vehicle-interaction-and-behavior-policy-m/

## About the role

Role overview: Autonomy MLE role focused on bridging perception and planning to develop and release robust learned driving policies. The primary objective of this role is to train, evaluate, and transition production-ready decision-making models into real-world autonomous navigation systems. In this hybrid role, you will report to the Technical Lead Manager.

## What they're looking for

- 2–5+ years experience training and releasing ML models in autonomous driving, robotics, or complex spatial AI
- Familiarity with Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models and World Models is a strong plus
- Experience using foundation models and AI tools for scenario generation, evaluation analysis, and rapid experimentation

Tags: Perception (7LT)