Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Simulation Evaluation

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 Challenge Waymo’s simulator is one of the most complex virtual environments ever built. It blends deterministic logic, physical dynamics, and state-of-the-art Generative AI to create a training ground for the Waymo Driver. The Simulator Evaluation team faces the ultimate data challenge: How do you mathematically prove that a virtual world is 'real'? We are seeking visionary machine learning engineers and researchers to architect the scalable deep learning systems, novel data workflows, and eval tools that power our research roadmap. In this role, you will pioneer the machine learning and generative vision paradigms required to define and measure the realism of our multimodal world models. Your work will define the state of the art for autonomous simulation, directly steering our research trajectory and the capabilities of the Waymo Driver.