Tech Lead Manager ML Optimization is open at Waymo in Mountain View, California, United States. The posting gives a salary of $298K - $378K. Posted on Mar 13, 2026, and still on Waymo’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
for this role include: Technical Leadership: Proactively study the SOTA model architectures and optimizations from the community and Google, for World Models, Diffusion + flow matching techniques, and translate them into measurable technical deliverables in Waymo’s onboard driving stack. Performance Analysis: Dev tooling innovation for model performance inspector in highly distributed training/inference setups…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Waymo’s careers page.
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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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