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You'll design and deploy machine learning models for autonomous vehicle interaction, focusing on motion planning and agent reasoning for complex scenarios like lane changes and merges. This role requires 5+ years of C++ software engineering experience, expertise with learned driving policies (RL/imitation learning) and PyTorch or JAX, and proven success shipping production ML systems. You'll collaborate across prediction and planning teams, integrating models into closed-loop simulation and driving transitions from rule-based logic to data-driven policies. The position is hybrid and pays $213,000–$263,000.
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Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.
The Vehicle Interaction team tackles critical autonomous driving challenges, directly responsible for modeling agent interactions with other vehicles to advance our mission of safety and building the world's most trusted driver. The team develops agent reasoning and motion planning algorithms to resolve complex interactive scenarios—including lane changes, merges, unprotected maneuvers, and cut-ins. By combining core robotics principles with scalable, production-deployed machine learning models, the team enables the Driver to safely, predictably, and seamlessly navigate dynamic real-world environments.
In this hybrid role, you will report directly to the Technical Lead Manager.
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Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.
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Waymo develops autonomous-driving technology and operates fully autonomous ride-hailing through Waymo One. Its Waymo Driver combines software, maps, cameras, lidar, radar, onboard computing, simulation, and operational systems to navigate public roads without a human driver. The company deploys the technology through purpose-selected vehicle platforms and partnerships, with safety validation central to its development process. Waymo originated as Google's self-driving car project and now operates as an Alphabet company focused on autonomous mobility.
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