Job brief: Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Perception, Simulation Realism

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• Listed on Waymo's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-04 (5 days ago); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-08.
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What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $298,000 to $368,000 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Mountain View, California, United States; San Francisco, California, United States · Mountain View (US-MTV-EMF680)
• Posted: 2026-11-04

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Lead / staff. The title says "Staff".

Main duties

• We are looking for a strategic technical leader to drive the ML perception architecture for Sim GroundTruth. This role sits at the critical intersection of c…
• Scalable ML Architecture & Signal Expansion: Architect a modular, extensible ML framework capable of rapidly absorbing a growing list of complex signal requi…
• Strategic Ownership & Quality Leadership: Define the multi-year roadmap for signal quality, coverage, and reliability. Your mandate is to ensure our signals …
• ML Scale & Inference Efficiency: Lead the optimization of high-fidelity perception model inference and compute efficiency across massive, petabyte-scale data…
• Stakeholder & Ecosystem Growth: Act as the primary interface for "Application Owners" across the company. You will translate complex simulation needs into te…

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• Typical listed pay for engineer jobs in San Francisco, CA: $193k a year (630 listings, 42 employers). This listing is 73% higher.
• Across Waymo's 316 open listings, 50% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Waymo hires

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