Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Simulation

Waymo
London, UK / MTV / Oxford, UK2026-06-01

About the job

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. The Simulator team builds state-of-the-art simulations of realistic environments for the testing and training of the Waymo driver. We use machine learning to model the real world, including realistic agents, roads, traffic control systems, and weather. We are planning to set up a team in London UK to work with the teams in MTV and Oxford to build these foundation models out and to integrate them into several evaluation and training products. We are looking for research engineers to work on these exciting problems.

Responsibilities

Be part of a world class research engineering team to grow the state-of-the-art of ultra realistic AV simulations using foundation models

Collaborate with teams in Waymo Oxford to use large models to improve sim realism

Design experiments that push the frontiers of AV simulations

Develop metrics that measure the realism of simulated worlds

Train and evaluate large models and integrate them into the simulator and its downstream applications

Help hire outstanding research engineers from diverse backgrounds

Be a part of a collaborative research engineering team that takes research ideas and productionizes them

Qualifications

Minimum

No minimum qualifications listed.

Preferred

5+ years experience in applied Deep Learning

5+ years coding and design skills

Experience solving complex production problems using state-of-the-art ML techniques

Experience taking research to production

Expertise in Data Analysis or Data Science