Machine Learning Engineer, Driver Refinement & Validation, Perception

Waymo·Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA·Posted 18 September 2026

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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. The Driver Refinement & Validation (DRV) organization's goal is to improve the Waymo Driver's performance by owning the end-to-end driving behavior for various onroad problems clusters. We work with upstream and downstream teams on developing the ML models and integrating them into the Waymo Driver. We have access to millions of miles of driving data from a diverse set of sensors, enabling engineers like you to (1) develop methods for efficiently and continuously learning from large scale…

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