Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Vision-Language Foundation Models
Waymo · Mountain View, California, United States
Posted about 3 months ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 80 days Waymo's roles stay open a median of 81 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Waymo's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Waymo
- high 348 stale, 9 reposted of 353 open
- Hiring momentum
- 490 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-23
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About this role
As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer focusing on Vision-Language Foundation Models at Waymo, you will lead the development of large multimodal foundation models to enhance autonomous driving capabilities. Your role involves driving pre-training and domain adaptation strategies, implementing advanced fine-tuning and reasoning enhancement techniques, and architecting scalable data pipelines. You will also provide technical leadership and collaborate across various teams to embed these models into the broader autonomous vehicle stack.
- benefits
- 2/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
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What you need
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, AI, ML, or a related technical field
- 8+ years of hands-on experience designing, training, and scaling deep learning models
- 3+ years focused on training Large Language Models (LLMs) or Vision-Language Models (VLMs)
- Proven expertise in the full lifecycle of Foundation Models
- Expert-level understanding of training infrastructure and distributed paradigms
- Expert-level software engineering fundamentals using Python, PyTorch, or JAX
Nice to have
- PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field
- Strong publication record in top-tier AI venues
- Deep experience with advanced Reinforcement Learning paradigms
- Demonstrated experience in Data Engineering for Foundation Models
- Familiarity with the systemic challenges of multimodal perception in robotics or autonomous driving
What you get
- Discretionary annual bonus program
- Equity incentive plan
- Generous Company benefits program
Worth weighing
- No specific details on the work environment or team dynamics
- Salary range provided but based on various factors, actual pay may vary
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Listed by Waymo on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-23. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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