Staff ML Engineer (AI Foundations)

Location: Hybrid role based in Mountain View, California, United States

Salary: $251,000–$310,000 USD gross annual base salary, plus discretionary annual bonus, equity incentives, and company benefits.

Company

Waymo develops autonomous driving technology and operates a fully autonomous ride-hailing service powered by the Waymo Driver.

What you will do

• Connect large-scale foundation models with production systems.
• Adapt foundation models to new sensors, vehicle platforms, and production requirements.
• Collaborate with research and engineering teams to deploy foundation models on next-generation autonomous driving platforms.
• Develop machine learning solutions for open problems in autonomous driving and safe vehicle operation.

Requirements

• Experience building large-scale systems.
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex systems problems.
• Successful delivery of projects through large-scale cross-functional collaborations.
• Hybrid work based in Mountain View, California.

Nice to have

• Experience with LLM- or VLM-related foundation models or systems.
• Experience with post-training foundation models.

Culture & Benefits

• Work alongside AI Foundations and other research teams within Alphabet.
• Eligibility for a discretionary annual bonus program.
• Equity incentive plan.
• Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.