# Machine Learning Engineer, Perception, Vision-Language Models

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver™-to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. The Semantics Onboard team is a specialized subgroup within the Perception organization at Waymo. Our mission is to bring the immense reasoning power and innate world knowledge of massive foundation models directly onto the Waymo Driver. We focus on building an onboard multi-task, multimodal perception model designed to tackle highly complex and unpredictable "long-tail" scenarios. By leveraging advanced model distillation and quantization, we empower the autonomous system with zero-shot and fe

- **Id**: 2409855
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/waymo-machine-learning-engineer-perception-llmvlm-phd-new-grad>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Mountain View, United States, San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2025-12-22T23:35:42Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T17:18:45Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 322
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3991
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Autonomous Driving, Smart Mobility, Ride Hailing

## Company

- **Id**: 98
- **Name**: Waymo
- **Domain**: waymo.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/waymo>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 81
- **Open postings**: 120
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.55
- **Repost share**: 0.008
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 76
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 170000
- **Max**: 216000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 216000

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Computer Vision** — Optional: no
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **JAX** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Model Distillation** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **Quantization** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **RLHF** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 322

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-13T01:49:48Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 331 · green card filings: 28; Filings 12m: 331

## Liveness

- **Score**: 5
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.18
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 322
- **Expected fill days**: 76
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, crowd:junior,brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 216000
- **Is top pay**: no

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