Waymo · Mountain View · Hybrid

Machine Learning Engineer - Gen SWE

10/13/2026

Description

This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to a Software Tech Lead Manager.

You will:

  • Own and drive the roadmap for ML-powered pickup and dropoff features, from problem definition through launch, in partnership with PM, UX, data science, and other commercialization engineering teams

  • Train, evaluate, and deploy ML models for occupancy detection, rider-vehicle interactions, pullover selection, and lost and found

  • Design fallback systems that cascade between onboard and offboard models based on latency, confidence, and connectivity

  • Build distributed systems that span vehicles, cloud services, and rider apps, and that handle intermittent and inconsistent connectivity well

  • Work across the stack (data pipelines, model serving, backend services, and client integration) to ship end-to-end, user-facing features

  • Define success metrics and use offline evaluation, simulation, and live experiments to measure impact on service quality and rider experience

Qualifications

  • BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience, including building and deploying ML models into production

  • Experience building backend distributed systems

Nice to have

  • Experience with C++

  • MS in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience

  • Experience in developing machine learning models, infrastructure, and pipelines

  • Experience deploying models on-device or on edge hardware with compute and latency constraints

  • Track record of owning ambiguous, user-facing problems end-to-end and setting your own technical direction

  • Experience in autonomous vehicles or robotics

Application

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