Want to professionalize your AI skills, pivot to an AI role and increase your salary?
Master AI Engineering with the most practical and comprehensive LLM Development certifications at Towards AI Academy.

Waymo

Staff Technical Lead Manager, ML Sensor Validation

Waymo

Published 11 May 2026
San Francisco, CA, USA
238K - 302K USD Annual
Remote
Full Time

Share this job

Role Highlights

Languages used

Key skills

Training Data
Anomaly Detection
Computer Science
Perception
Research
Backend
Machine Learning
Robotics
Mathematics
Physics
PhD

Tools, Libraries and Frameworks

Description

The role involves leading and building a team of machine learning engineers focused on sensing anomaly detection and calibration. The individual will develop a data flywheel to automatically generate training data for sensor degradation events using vision language models. The position requires owning the entire sensor validation stack from end to end. Additionally, the role entails driving collaborations between perception, system engineering, evaluation, and other internal teams. The work contributes to ensuring that sensors function reliably across the entire autonomous vehicle software stack.

Required Qualifications and Skills

Candidates must possess a Master of Science degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Math, Physics, or equivalent industry experience. The role requires at least six years of experience in designing, training, and deploying machine learning-driven real-time robotics systems. Applicants need four years of experience leading technical teams and two years of people management experience. A PhD in a relevant technical field is preferred.

Disclaimer

Disclaimer: Job and company description information and some of the data fields may have been generated via GPT-4 summarisation and could contain inaccuracies. The full external job listing link should always be relied on for authoritative information.

About the company

Waymo

Description

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company that began as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009. With a mission to enhance mobility and safety, Waymo has developed the Waymo Driver, powering their fully autonomous ride-hailing and local delivery services. To date, Waymo has achieved over 20 million miles of autonomous driving on public roads across 25 US cities and 20 billion miles of simulation testing. The company emphasizes mission-driven innovation and a collaborative culture, aiming to improve access to mobility while prioritizing safety and community impact.

Share

Share this job

Related jobs

System Design
Reliability
Architecture
Interfaces
Mountain View, CA, USA
Full Time
Product Management
Stakeholder Management
Manager
Data
Mountain View, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, US
Full Time
Data Protection
Risk Management
Program Management
Stakeholder Management
Mountain View, CA, USA
Full Time