Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Driving Behaviors

We're looking for talented teammates who'll help us maintain strong teamwork and are passionate about driving results.

This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to an Engineering Manager.

- Lead ML model development end-to-end for safety critical driving behaviors to evaluate and enhance the performance, safety and scalability of our self driving system

- Design experiments and assess results to make clear data-driven decisions

- Find new ways to gather the required data needed to improve our models and improve data quality

- Communicate benefits and limitations of new models and metrics to partner teams

- Integrate and deploy metrics and models on fleet-wide data

- Be able to operate on both tactical and strategic timescales

- 5+ years ML modeling experience in production environments at large scale

- Solid understanding of physics, geometry, and dynamics

- Proficiency in C++ and Python

- Ability to learn and utilize new frameworks quickly, employing AI tools or otherwise

- Proven ability to work cross functionally with both Product and Engineering stakeholders

- Experience working with ML models for autonomous systems

- Proficiency in SQL

The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process.

Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.

$213,000 - $263,000 USD