# Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Perception, Simulation Realism at Waymo

- Company: Waymo
- Status: Open
- Workplace: On-site
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States; San Francisco, California, United States
- Level: Staff
- Discipline: AI & ML
- Employment: Full-time
- Salary: $298K–368K
- Posted: 2026-11-04
- Skills: Simulation (7XW)
- Apply: https://careers.withwaymo.com/jobs?gh_jid=8351491

## Description

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 operational end-to-end ML solution. As we head into 2027, we are scaling this "Oracle" to become the backbone of all large-scale evaluation, enabling the business to test software at a level of rigor and realism previously thought impossible.
 The Role
 We are looking for a strategic technical leader to drive the ML perception architecture for Sim GroundTruth. This role sits at the critical intersec

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