Staff Tech Lead, Perception, Pre-training & Distillation is open at Waymo in Mountain View, California, United States, San Francisco, California, United States. The posting gives a salary of $251K - $310K. Posted on Sep 1, 2026, and still on Waymo’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
you will report to a Sr Staff Technical Lead Manager. You will: Train multi-billion parameter spatio-temporal foundation models on multi-billion frame data sets. Deliver pre-trained models for production usage, ideally for usage in real-time systems. Develop self-supervised learning, including image/video encoder, 3D point cloud encoder, spatio-temporal reconstruction or future prediction, and vision-language…
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