What jobs is Waymo hiring for right now?

As of Oct 20, 2026, Waymo has 355 open jobs on Alion. 315 of them state a salary (90%). They are posted in 10 cities. 197 allow remote or hybrid work. Its postings score B on the Alion truth index.

Source: Alion Coverage: open vacancies from the employer's own careers board Oct 19, 2026

Open jobs

355

With salary

315 (90%)

Cities

10

Posted in 30 days

108

Median age

65 days

How Waymo hires

Truth index

B 84/100

Median time to fill

79 days

Ghost roles

0%

Stale roles

44%

Reposted roles

0%

Waymo scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 135 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 44% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 79 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

What Waymo posted in the last two weeks

Posted in 14 days

41

Busiest day

8 Oct 7, 2026

Days with postings

11 / 14

Oct 6, 2026 weekend Oct 19, 2026

Which roles Waymo is hiring for

272 Jobs

AI/ML 70 25.7%

Backend 66 24.3%

Early Careers 36 13.2%

Management 28 10.3%

Field & Service 25 9.2%

Other roles 47 17.3%

Where Waymo is hiring

Waymo hires from 24 offices across 9 countries, holding 532 of its open vacancies between them.

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How the work at Waymo is set up

Work format

Hybrid 187 53%

In office 153 44%

Remote 10 3%

Level

Senior 127 37%

Staff+ 67 20%

Intern 59 17%

Lead 58 17%

Middle 19 6%

Junior 7 2%

Head+ 6 2%

Employment

Full-Time 268 82%

Internship 59 18%

Contractor 1 0%

Salaries in Waymo vacancies

315 of 355 vacancies state a salary (90%). The range below is built from those 315 stated figures only, never from an estimate.

Lower quartile

$188k

Median

$247k

Upper quartile

$284k

$140k$310k

All salaries at Waymo

Open vacancies at Waymo

Mechanical Engineer

≈ $25k – $58k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • High School Diploma • Perm

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Staff ML Accelerator Architect

$251k – $310k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • Master's Degree • Mountain View • New York

SystemVerilog

Machine Learning

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Software Engineer

$205k – $215k per year • Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • High School Diploma • Perm

Python

Java

SQL

C++

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2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Research, VLM Harnesses for AV Planning

$170k per year • In office • Internship • 3+ years exp • PhD • Mountain View

Reinforcement Learning

JAX

Multimodal AI

Computer Vision

VLM

PyTorch

Machine Learning

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2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Research, Perception Foundation Models

$170k per year • In office • Internship • PhD • Mountain View

Python

Reinforcement Learning

Diffusion Models

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Machine Learning

Robotics

Reinforcement Learning

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2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Machine Learning - Simulation & Closed-Loop Training

$170k per year • In office • Internship • PhD • Mountain View

Python

C++

PyTorch C++

AI/ML

Reinforcement Learning

JAX

AI Agents

Transformers

PyTorch

Flax

DPO

PPO

GRPO

Post-training

TPU

XLA

World Models

Model Distillation

Reward Modeling

Machine Learning

Robotics

Isaac Gym

MuJoCo

Reinforcement Learning

Diffusion Policy

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Technical Program Manager

$230k – $242k per year • Equity • Remote (Russia) • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • Master's Degree • Perm

Data Augmentation

Agentic Workflows

World Models

Machine Learning

Management

Agile

Waterfall

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2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Research Scientist, Visual Reasoning

$170k per year • In office • Internship • PhD • Mountain View

Python

Reinforcement Learning

JAX

Multimodal AI

VLM

TensorFlow

PyTorch

LLM

SFT

Post-training

Pre-training

Machine Learning

Robotics

Reinforcement Learning

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2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Research, Behavior Post-training

$170k per year • In office • Internship • PhD • Mountain View • San Francisco

Reinforcement Learning

PyTorch

LLM

Synthetic Data

SFT

Post-training

Machine Learning

Robotics

Reinforcement Learning

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Senior Software Engineer, Fleet Response Efficiency & Optimization

$213k – $263k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Mountain View • San Francisco

C++

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Questions about jobs at Waymo

Is Waymo hiring right now?

Yes. As of Oct 20, 2026, Waymo has 355 open jobs on Alion.

What roles does Waymo hire for?

Waymo is hiring mostly for AI/ML, Backend, Early Careers. The largest group is AI/ML with 70 open vacancies.

How much does Waymo pay?

90% of vacancies at Waymo state a salary. Across those 315 stated figures the range runs from $188k to $284k, with a median of $247k.

Where does Waymo hire?

Waymo has open vacancies in 10 places, most of all in Mountain View, San Francisco, New York. It keeps 24 offices with open roles, spread across 9 countries.

Does Waymo offer remote work?

Yes. 197 of the open vacancies at Waymo allow remote or hybrid work, which is 55% of the board.

How long have Waymo vacancies been open?

Half have been on Alion for 65 days or less. 150 vacancies at Waymo have been listed for more than 90 days, and postings of that age are far more often out of date.

How reliable are Waymo job postings?

Waymo scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 135 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 44% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 79 days.