Waymo · Mountain View/San Francisco · Hybrid

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Fleet Monitoring & Response

5/18/2026

Description

You will:

  • Design, scale, and optimize Waymo's real-time Fleet Monitoring and event response engine to support expansion to global operating locations.
  • Develop and deploy spatial-temporal anomaly detection models (e.g., S2-cell statistical regressions) and leverage Multimodal Foundation Models (Gemini/VLMs) to detect, triage, and automatically respond to off-nominal operations.
  • Build and standardize the ML infrastructure for fleet monitoring models, including automated training/inference pipelines, low-latency spatial data stores (e.g., in-memory S2 grids), and continuous model drift monitoring.
  • Partner with Product Data Scientists to productionize, evaluate, and scale experimental models, translating notebooks and prototype algorithms into production-grade systems.

Qualifications

  • BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
  • 6+ years of experience programming in backend coding languages such as Java or C++.
  • Experience in building backend platforms supporting multiple product use-cases/services. 
  • Prior Machine Learning Engineering experience in Python using mature ML frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch or Keras.

Nice to have

  • MS in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience building and deploying ML / Optimization models into production environments.
  • Experience developing ML data pipelines and ML workflow automation code on top of a mature ML infra. 
  • Experience working at another Ride hailing or Marketplace company.
  • Coursework background in ML and Optimization.

Application

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