Waymo - Multiple Locations
Locations: Mountain View, San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, New York, London, Oxford, Warsaw
Type: Full-time
Work Arrangement: ONSITE + HYBRID + some REMOTE
Apply: https://waymo.com/careers (mention HN)
About the Role
Building autonomous driving software at production scale across perception, prediction, planning, simulation, and the systems that power a commercial ride-hailing service.
Hiring Now: Software Engineers and ML Engineers
Areas of Focus and Example Roles:
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Perception, Prediction, Planning ML Train and ship models for scene understanding and behavior, own E2E pipelines, and make the Driver smoother and safer.
- Examples: Senior ML Engineer, Prediction; Senior Software Engineer, Applied ML, Planner Technology; Senior or Principal roles in Perception Systems and Semantics.
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Simulation, World Modeling, Evaluation Push sim fidelity with foundation models, 3D reconstruction, sensor simulation, and realism metrics at massive scale.
- Examples: ML Engineer, Simulation; Senior ML Engineer, Simulation Realism; Principal Software Engineer, Simulator; Senior SWE, Model Evaluation; Research Scientist, World Modeling.
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Backend, Fullstack, Commercialization Build the backend and apps that run ride-hail at scale, from fleet orchestration to pickup and dropoff UX.
- Examples: Backend SWE, Fleet Orchestration; Backend SWE, Pickups and Dropoffs; Principal SWE, Commercialization; Senior Backend SWE; Fullstack TLM/Staff; Senior Frontend SWE, Simulation; Senior SWE, Data Tooling.
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ML Platform, Data Infra, and Data Science Power model training and evaluation with petabyte-scale data systems, lineage, feature stores, and decision science.
- Examples: Senior SWE, ML Data Infra; Senior SWE, Perception Data Primary; Senior Product Data Scientist; Data Engineer; Senior Data Scientist.
Compensation (US Examples)
- Backend SWE: $170k–$216k
- Senior or Principal SWE and Staff-level ML roles: Commonly $204k–$421k base, plus bonus and equity.
- Roles vary by location and level.
Contact
Directly contact recruiter at Waymo: mhamel[at]google[dot]com