# Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Perception, Simulation Realism

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. About the Team: The "Oracle" for Autonomous Driving Our mission is to build the high-fidelity, platform-agnostic Ground Truth (GT) engine that powers the next generation of autonomous vehicle (AV) simulation and evaluation. We function as the "Oracle"-by reprocessing onboard logs offline using state-of-the-art ML Foundation Models, we generate semantic signals that significantly outperform real-time onboard software. Since our inception in early 2025, we have moved from concept to a fully opera

- **Id**: 3766338
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/waymo-senior-staff-machine-learning-engineer-perception-simulation-realism>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: staff
- **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
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T18:54:49Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T09:48:51Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5722
- **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**: 123
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.537
- **Repost share**: 0.008
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 76
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 298000
- **Max**: 368000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 368000

## Technologies

- **Computer Vision** — Optional: no
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **JAX** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **NumPy** — Optional: no
- **Post-training** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **Transformers** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: yes
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: yes
- **Sensor Fusion** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T20:09:16Z

## 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**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 4
- **Expected fill days**: 76
- **Reasons**: conf:1, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 368000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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