Staff/Sr. Staff Machine Learning Engineer - World Modeling, Simulation is open at Waymo in Mountain View, CA, USA. The posting gives a salary of $251K - $310K. Posted on Mar 6, 2025, and still on Waymo’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
, you will define and drive the technical roadmap for large-scale generative architectures, bridging cutting-edge multimodal pre-training (across 4D video, LiDAR, and Radar), spatiotemporal tokenization, and causal post-training/distillation to generate interactive, multi-platform, safety-critical driving worlds for closed-loop evaluation and onboard model training. In this role, you will report to a Senior Staff…
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Waymo has 373 open roles right now, 7 of them remote. Most are in Engineering, Data & Research and Operations. The median advertised salary across its roles with a published range is $238K. See all its roles
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