Which standards do Waymo's postings name?

Functional safety standards (5), EU AI Act (1), GDPR (1).

What would I need to be ready for a technical role at Waymo?

The postings call for applied ai engineering, embodied ai and robotics systems, ai evaluation and testing design, how models work, at a governance depth, post-deployment monitoring and drift detection. Paste the posting you want into the readiness check to see which of these you can already prove and the graded path that closes the rest.

Autonomous vehicles, snapshot September 28, 2026

Waymo physical AI jobs: 230 open roles

How many physical AI jobs is Waymo hiring for?

230 of Waymo's 358 open roles are technical as of September 28, 2026 (64.2 percent of the board). By family: perception and autonomy 111, ai and machine learning 85, safety and assurance 15, simulation and data 8, planning and control 6, hardware and embedded 5. Read weekly from Waymo's own job board. Every row links to Waymo's own posting and to the seat on our map it matches.

Waymo careers page In the full feed

Standards these postings name

The seats on our map

Matched by the titles postings use for each seat. The role page lists what the seat asks for and carries the readiness check.

The programs that teach what Waymo asks for

Counted from the graded topics that teach the competencies these postings name. Your own path is shorter: it skips what you can already prove.

Certified AI Practitioner: Workplace Foundations86 graded topics, first module free
Certified AI Governance Professional (CAIGP)45 graded topics, first module free
Certified Enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance Professional (CEGP)51 graded topics, first module free

The 230 open roles

Role	Names	Next step
2027 Summer Intern, BS/MS, Software Engineer, RO Performance team, Release Evaluation (Simulation) Warsaw, Poland, posted 2026-09-25	Robot learning and foundation models	Readiness for AI Engineer
2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Perception, Machine Learning Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-25	Perception and computer vision	Paste it, see your gaps
2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Software Engineer, Sys Intel & Machine Learning Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-25	Perception and computer vision Robot learning and foundation models	Readiness for AI Engineer
2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Software Engineering, Sys Intel & ML Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-25	Robot learning and foundation models	Paste it, see your gaps
2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Systems Engineer, Autonomous Vehicle Networks & Diagnostics Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-25	no taxonomy term in the body	Readiness for AI Engineer
Lead Noise, Vibration, and Harshness (NVH) Engineer Mountain View, California, USA, posted 2026-09-25	Simulation and sim to real	Paste it, see your gaps
Lead Technical Program Manager, Simulation Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-25	no taxonomy term in the body	Readiness for AI Program Manager
Senior Backend Engineer, Security Mountain View, CA, USA ; San Francsico, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-25	Fleet operations and teleoperation	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Signal and Power Integrity Engineer Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-25	Simulation and sim to real	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Software Engineer, Compute Software Bangalore, Karnataka, India, posted 2026-09-25	Embedded and edge AI	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Systems Integration Engineer Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-25	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Technical Program Manager, Simulation Mountain View, CA, US; San Francisco, CA , US, posted 2026-09-25	no taxonomy term in the body	Readiness for AI Program Manager
Silicon Emulation Engineer Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-25	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Staff Systems Engineer, Driving Behaviors Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-25	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Staff Systems Test Engineer, Scenario Quality and Maintenance Systems Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-25	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Technical Lead Manager, Motion Control Test Engineering Mountain View, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, US, posted 2026-09-25	Motion planning and control Embedded and edge AI	Paste it, see your gaps
2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Machine Learning, Simulation Realism London, England, United Kingdom, posted 2026-09-24	Robot learning and foundation models	Paste it, see your gaps
2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Sim-Realism ML Infrastructure London, England, United Kingdom, posted 2026-09-24	Robot learning and foundation models	Paste it, see your gaps
2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Software Engineer, Simulation Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-24	Robot learning and foundation models	Readiness for AI Engineer
AI Enablement Lead Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-24	no taxonomy term in the body	Readiness for AI Adoption and Enablement Lead
ASIC Design Verification Engineer Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-24	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Automotive HVAC Systems Engineer Mountain View, CA, USA; Novi, MI, USA, posted 2026-09-24	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Component Engineer Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-24	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Director, Global Operations Control Tempe, AZ, USA, posted 2026-09-24	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Engineering & Hardware Category Manager Remote, US, posted 2026-09-24	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Hardware Engineer, LIDAR Performance Validation Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-24	Perception and computer vision	Readiness for AI Engineer
International Standardization Lead (Staff Researcher) London, England, United Kingdom, posted 2026-09-24	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Planning Manager, GOC Remote, USA, posted 2026-09-24	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Policy & Quality Specialist- ML Perception Data Mountain View, CA, posted 2026-09-24	Perception and computer vision	Paste it, see your gaps
Product Manager, Fleet Simulation Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-24	Simulation and sim to real	Readiness for AI Product Manager
Safety Case Research, Product Development Lead Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-24	Functional safety and assurance	Readiness for Physical AI Safety Engineer
Safety Documentation, Regulatory Permits Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-24	Functional safety and assurance	Paste it, see your gaps
Safety Engineer, Risk Management Mountain View CA USA; San Francisco CA USA, posted 2026-09-24	no taxonomy term in the body	Readiness for AI Engineer
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Driving Behaviors Mountain View, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, US; New York, NY, US, posted 2026-09-24	Functional safety and assurance	Readiness for AI Engineer
Senior ML Compiler Engineer, Compute Mountain View, CA, US; New York, NY, US, posted 2026-09-24	Robot learning and foundation models	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Product Manager, Autonomous Vehicle Reliability Mountain View, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, US, posted 2026-09-24	no taxonomy term in the body	Readiness for AI Product Manager
Senior Product Manager, Simulation Mountain View, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, US, posted 2026-09-24	Robot learning and foundation models	Readiness for AI Product Manager
Senior Program Manager, New Platform Validation Operations Mountain View, California, USA; San Francisco, California, USA;, posted 2026-09-24	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Safety Researcher, Computational Behavior Modeling London, England, United Kingdom, posted 2026-09-24	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Seating and Restraints Architecture Engineer Mountain View, CA, US, posted 2026-09-24	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Software Engineer, Multiverse Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA;, posted 2026-09-24	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Software Engineer, Vehicle Platforms C++ Mountain View, CA, US, posted 2026-09-24	Embedded and edge AI	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Staff Regulatory and Compliance Systems Engineer Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-24 Functional safety standards	Functional safety and assurance	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Systems Engineer, Vehicle Body Control Systems Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-24 Functional safety standards	Embedded and edge AI Functional safety and assurance	Readiness for AI Engineer
Senior Systems Engineer, Vehicle Security Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-24	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Vehicle Interior Engineer Mountain View, Ca USA;Novi, Mi, USA, posted 2026-09-24	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Silicon Validation Manager Bangalore, Karnataka, India, posted 2026-09-24	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Staff Field Quality Engineer Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-24	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Staff Product Data Scientist, Experimentation San Francisco, CA, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-24	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Staff Research Scientist, Foundation Models Recipes Mountain View, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, US; Kirkland, WA, US, posted 2026-09-24	Robot learning and foundation models	Paste it, see your gaps
Staff Silicon Product Engineer Taipei, Taiwan, posted 2026-09-24	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Staff SoC Design Engineer Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-24	Embedded and edge AI	Paste it, see your gaps
Staff Software Engineer, Collision Avoidance Testing Mountain View, Ca, USA;San Francisco, Ca, USA, posted 2026-09-24	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Staff Software Quality Safety Operations Specialist Mountain View, CA, United States; Remote, United States, posted 2026-09-24	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Structured Testing Vendor Engineering Lead Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-24	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Systems Engineering Lead, New Product Initiatives Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA USA, posted 2026-09-24	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Technical Program Manager, Vehicle Security Novi, Michigan, United States, posted 2026-09-24	Fleet operations and teleoperation	Paste it, see your gaps
Training Delivery Manager (Fleet Maintenance & Validation TTT) San Francisco, CA, USA; Tempe, AZ, USA, posted 2026-09-24	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Vehicle Package and Integration Lead Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-24	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Vehicle Systems Safety Mountain View CA USA; San Francisco CA USA; Kirkland WA USA, posted 2026-09-24 Functional safety standards	Functional safety and assurance	Paste it, see your gaps
2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Road Understanding, ML Engineer Mountain View, California, posted 2026-09-23	Robot learning and foundation models Machine learning infrastructure	Paste it, see your gaps
2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Software Engineer Mountain View, California, posted 2026-09-23	Robot learning and foundation models	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Software Engineer, Configuration & Experiments Mountain View, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, US, posted 2026-09-23	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Software Engineer, Maneuvering Tech Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Pittsburgh, PA, USA, posted 2026-09-23	Robot learning and foundation models	Paste it, see your gaps
Software Engineer, Maneuvering Tech Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Pittsburgh, PA, USA, posted 2026-09-23	Robot learning and foundation models	Paste it, see your gaps
Staff Software Engineer, Manuevering Tech Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Pittsburgh, PA, USA, posted 2026-09-23	Robot learning and foundation models	Paste it, see your gaps
Staff Tech Lead, ML Data Infrastructure and Inference Platform Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-23	Robot learning and foundation models	Paste it, see your gaps
System Safety Engineer, Strategic Programs & Integration Mountain View, CA, USA, Kirkland, WA, USA, posted 2026-09-23	no taxonomy term in the body	Readiness for AI Engineer
2027 Summer Intern, BS/MS, Embedded, Software Engineer Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-22	Embedded and edge AI	Readiness for AI Engineer
2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Machine Learning Engineer San Francisco, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-22	Robot learning and foundation models	Readiness for AI Engineer
2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Machine Learning Engineer, Simulator Realism Evaluation San Francisco, California, United States, posted 2026-09-22	Robot learning and foundation models	Readiness for AI Evaluation Specialist
2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Safety Research, Human Behavior Analytics Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-22	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Research Scientist, World Model Post-Training Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA, posted 2026-09-22	Robot learning and foundation models	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Data Scientist, Simulation Capacity Optimization Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-22	Simulation and sim to real	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Fullstack Software Engineer, Workshop Management San Francisco, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-22	Fleet operations and teleoperation	Paste it, see your gaps
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Vision-Language Foundation Models Mountain View, California, United States, posted 2026-09-22	Robot learning and foundation models Machine learning infrastructure	Readiness for AI Engineer
Technical Specialist- ML Data Hyderabad, India, posted 2026-09-22	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Vehicle Product Engineer Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-22	Embedded and edge AI	Paste it, see your gaps
2027 Summer Intern, BS, SysEng Software Engineer Mountain View, California, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Simulation and sim to real	Paste it, see your gaps
2027 Summer Intern, BS/MS, Pipeline and Test Health Engineer San Francisco, California, USA, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
2027 Summer Intern, BS/MS, Software Engineer San Francisco, California, posted 2026-09-21	Robot learning and foundation models	Paste it, see your gaps
2027 Summer Intern, BS/MS, Software Engineering, Commercialization Mountain View, California, United States; San Francisco, California, United States, posted 2026-09-21	Robot learning and foundation models Fleet operations and teleoperation	Paste it, see your gaps
2027 Summer Intern, BS/MS, Software Engineering, Maneuvering Tech San Francisco, California, posted 2026-09-21	Robot learning and foundation models	Paste it, see your gaps
2027 Summer Intern, MBA, Operations Planning San Francisco, California, United States, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
2027 Summer Intern, MS, Software Engineering, Behavior Test San Francisco, California, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Fleet operations and teleoperation	Paste it, see your gaps
2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Machine Learning, Simulator Evaluation Mountain View, California, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Robot learning and foundation models	Paste it, see your gaps
2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Quantitative UX Researcher, Growth/International Expansion San Francisco, California, United States, posted 2026-09-21	Fleet operations and teleoperation	Paste it, see your gaps
2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Software Engineer, Multiverse Mountain View, California, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Robot learning and foundation models	Paste it, see your gaps
2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Software Engineer, Simulation Evaluation ML Model Mountain View, California, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Robot learning and foundation models	Readiness for AI Engineer
2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Software/ML Engineer, Simulation Mountain View, California, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Perception and computer vision Robot learning and foundation models Machine learning infrastructure	Readiness for AI Engineer
2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Machine Learning, Computer Vision Mountain View, California, posted 2026-09-21	Perception and computer vision Robot learning and foundation models Simulation and sim to real	Paste it, see your gaps
2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Machine Learning, Computer Vision Mountain View, California, United States, posted 2026-09-21	Perception and computer vision Robot learning and foundation models Simulation and sim to real	Paste it, see your gaps
2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Quantitative Software Engineer Mountain View, California, United States \| San Francisco, California, United States, posted 2026-09-21	Robot learning and foundation models	Paste it, see your gaps
Data Scientist Mountain View, California, USA; San Francisco, California, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Simulation and sim to real	Paste it, see your gaps
Embedded Software Technical Lead & Manager, Simulation Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Embedded and edge AI	Paste it, see your gaps
Field Safety, Operations Performance Mountain View, CA, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Head of Industrial Design Mountain View, CA, US, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Machine Learning Engineer / Applied Scientist, Prediction & Planning Mountain View, CA USA; San Francisco, CA USA, posted 2026-09-21	Robot learning and foundation models	Readiness for AI Engineer
Machine Learning Engineer Perception LLM/VLM (PhD, New Grad) Mountain View, CA USA; San Francisco, CA USA;, posted 2026-09-21	Robot learning and foundation models Machine learning infrastructure	Readiness for Robotics AI Engineer
Machine Learning Engineer, Marketplace Pricing MountainView, CA, United States, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Readiness for AI Engineer
Machine Learning Engineer, Perception Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Readiness for Robotics AI Engineer
Machine Learning Engineer, Prediction & Planning Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Robot learning and foundation models	Readiness for AI Engineer
Machine Learning Engineer, Simulation Realism Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Robot learning and foundation models	Readiness for AI Engineer
Machine Learning Engineer, Simulation Realism Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Robot learning and foundation models	Readiness for AI Engineer
OEM Platform Integration Engineer Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Perception Machine Learning Engineer Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Perception and computer vision	Readiness for Robotics AI Engineer
Perception Machine Learning Engineer, Continuous Learning Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Perception and computer vision	Readiness for Robotics AI Engineer
Principal Software Engineer, Onboard Field Response Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Principal Software Engineer, Post Training Mountain View, CA. USA, posted 2026-09-21	Robot learning and foundation models	Paste it, see your gaps
Product Quality Engineer Mountain View, CA, US, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Research Scientist, Map Scalability Mountain View, CA, U.S.A ; San Francisco, CA, U.S.A ; New York City, NY, U.S.A, posted 2026-09-21	Perception and computer vision Robot learning and foundation models	Paste it, see your gaps
Research Scientist, RL for Autonomous Planning & World Modeling Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; New York City, NY, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Motion planning and control Robot learning and foundation models	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Android Engineer, In-Car Experience Mountain View, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, US, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Android Platform Engineer San Francisco, CA, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Data Engineer Mountain View, California, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Machine learning infrastructure	Readiness for AI Engineer
Senior Data Scientist Mountain View, California, USA; San Francisco, California, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Simulation and sim to real	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Formal Verification Engineer Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Computer Vision/VLM Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Perception and computer vision Robot learning and foundation models Machine learning infrastructure	Readiness for AI Engineer
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Fleet Monitoring & Response San Francisco, CA; Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Robot learning and foundation models Fleet operations and teleoperation	Readiness for AI Engineer
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Multimodal Perception Mountain View, California, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Perception and computer vision Robot learning and foundation models Machine learning infrastructure	Readiness for Robotics AI Engineer
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Perception LLM/VLM Mountain View, CA USA; San Francisco, CA USA;, posted 2026-09-21	Robot learning and foundation models Machine learning infrastructure	Readiness for Robotics AI Engineer
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Predictive Planner, Systems Arch Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Robot learning and foundation models	Readiness for AI Engineer
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Robotics Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Perception and computer vision Robot learning and foundation models	Readiness for Robotics AI Engineer
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Runtime and Serving Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Robot learning and foundation models Embedded and edge AI	Readiness for AI Engineer
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Simulation Evaluation Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Robot learning and foundation models	Readiness for AI Evaluation Specialist
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Vehicle Interaction & Behavior Policy ML Mountain View, California, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Robot learning and foundation models Simulation and sim to real	Readiness for AI Engineer
Senior ML Accelerator Architect Mountain View, CA, US; New York City, NY, US, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Research Scientist, Perception Mountain View, CA, USA ; San Francisco, CA, USA ; Kirkland, WA, USA ; New York City, NY, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Perception and computer vision Robot learning and foundation models	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Security Engineer Mountain View, California, USA, posted 2026-09-21 Functional safety standards	Functional safety and assurance	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Software Engineer, Booking Mountain View, CA, United States, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Software Engineer, Bulk/Interactive Inference Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Software Engineer, DevAI Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Software Engineer, Eval Authoring APIs Mountain View,CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Software Engineer, Fleet Response Infrastructure Mountain View, California, United States of America, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Software Engineer, ICX Graphics Mountain View, California, USA, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Software Engineer, Inertial Navigation Mountain View, California, US, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Software Engineer, Internal Tooling Mountain View, CA, US, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Software Engineer, Linux Kernel Mountain View, California, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Embedded and edge AI	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Software Engineer, Mapping Data & Eval San Francisco, CA, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Perception and computer vision	Readiness for AI Engineer
Senior Software Engineer, Mapping Field Response Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Software Engineer, Mission Planning Warsaw, Poland, posted 2026-09-21	Fleet operations and teleoperation	Readiness for AI Engineer
Senior Software Engineer, ML Evaluation Infra and Efficiency Mountain View, California, United States, posted 2026-09-21	Robot learning and foundation models	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Software Engineer, ML/Eval Data Platforms & Infrastructure Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Readiness for AI Engineer
Senior Software Engineer, Quantitative Evaluations Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Software Engineer, Simulator Orchestration Mountain View, California, United States; San Francisco, California, United States, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Software Engineer, Statistical Evaluation and Sampling Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Software Engineer, Supply Infrastructure Warsaw, Poland, posted 2026-09-21	Fleet operations and teleoperation	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Software Engineer, Training Efficiency Mountain View, California, United States, posted 2026-09-21	Robot learning and foundation models	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Staff Engineer, Agentic AI Engineering Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, LLM/VLM Model Architecture & Optimization Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA;, posted 2026-09-21	Robot learning and foundation models	Readiness for AI Engineer
Senior Staff Technical Lead Manager, Perception Optimization Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Perception and computer vision Robot learning and foundation models	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Staff TLM, Data Mining and Sampling for ML and Evaluation Mountain View, California, United States; San Francisco, California, United States; New York City, New York, United States., posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior System Safety Engineer, Operations & Fleet Response Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Seattle, WA, USA, posted 2026-09-21 Functional safety standards	Functional safety and assurance	Readiness for AI Engineer
Senior Vehicle Structures Engineer Mountain View, CA, USA;Novi, MI, USA, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior/Staff ML Engineer, 3D/4D World Modeling, Simulation Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Perception and computer vision Simulation and sim to real	Readiness for AI Engineer
Site Reliability Engineer, Lead Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Site Reliability Engineering, Technical Lead Manager Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
SMS, Safety Policy and Promotion Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Software Engineer, GPU Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Embedded and edge AI	Paste it, see your gaps
Software Engineer, Marketplace Logistic Mountain View, CA, United States, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Software Engineer, Perception Scaling Evaluation Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Perception and computer vision	Readiness for AI Engineer
Software Engineer, Pipeline and Test Health Mountain View, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, US, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Software Engineer, Statistical Evaluation and Sampling Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Software Engineer, Vehicle Platforms C++ Mountain View, CA, US, posted 2026-09-21	Embedded and edge AI	Paste it, see your gaps
Software Quality Operations Specialist Remote, USA, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Software Quality Operations Specialist Mountain View, CA, United States; San Francisco, CA, United States; Remote, United States, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Software Quality Operations Specialist Remote, USA, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Software Quality Operations Specialist, Domain Expansion Remote, US, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Sr Software Engineer, Android Automotive Mountain View, California, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Embedded and edge AI	Paste it, see your gaps
Sr Software Engineer, Telematics Mountain View, California, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Fleet operations and teleoperation	Paste it, see your gaps
Sr Staff Tech Lead, Machine Learning Engineer, Perception Mountain View, California, United States, San Francisco, California, United States, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Readiness for Robotics AI Engineer
Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, Marketplace ML Platform Mountain View, CA, United States, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Readiness for AI Engineer
Sr. Staff Software Engineer, DUE Experience Mountain View, CA; Seattle, WA; New York City, NY; Los Angeles, CA, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Fleet Orchestration, TLM Mountain View, CA, United States; San Francisco, CA, United States, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Staff Android Engineer, In-Car Experience Mountain View, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, US, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Staff Data Scientist Mountain View, California, USA; San Francisco, California, USA, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Staff Data Scientist, Weather Mountain View, California, USA; San Francisco, California, USA, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Staff Hardware Reliability Engineer Mountain View, California, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Perception and computer vision	Readiness for AI Engineer
Staff iOS Engineer, Growth San Francisco, CA, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Robot learning and foundation models	Paste it, see your gaps
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Data Flywheel Mountain View, CA USA; San Francisco, CA USA;, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Readiness for AI Engineer
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Infrastructure Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Robot learning and foundation models Simulation and sim to real Machine learning infrastructure	Readiness for AI Engineer
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Mapping Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Perception and computer vision Robot learning and foundation models	Readiness for AI Engineer
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Simulation Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Readiness for AI Engineer
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Simulation Realism Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Readiness for AI Engineer
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Tech Lead, Labeling Automation Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Perception and computer vision Machine learning infrastructure	Readiness for AI Engineer
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, VLM/LLM Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; New York City, NY, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Robot learning and foundation models	Readiness for AI Engineer
Staff ML Engineer, Foundation Models Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Robot learning and foundation models	Paste it, see your gaps
Staff ML Engineer, Perception Research Mountain View, CA, USA ; New York City, NY, USA ; Kirkland, WA, USA ; San Francisco, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Perception and computer vision Robot learning and foundation models	Readiness for Robotics AI Engineer
Staff Research Scientist, Perception Mountain View, CA, USA ; San Francisco, CA, USA ; Kirkland, WA, USA ; New York City, NY, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Perception and computer vision Robot learning and foundation models	Paste it, see your gaps
Staff Software Engineer / Technical Lead Manager San Francisco, California, United States, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Staff Software Engineer, 3D & Data Visualization Tools Mountain View, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, US, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Readiness for AI Engineer
Staff Software Engineer, Compute Reliability Mountain View, California, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Robot learning and foundation models Embedded and edge AI	Paste it, see your gaps
Staff Software Engineer, DUE Experience Mountain View, CA, United States, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Staff Software Engineer, Fleet Optimization San Francisco, CA ; Mountain View, CA, posted 2026-09-21	Fleet operations and teleoperation	Paste it, see your gaps
Staff Software Engineer, Privacy Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21 EU AI Act GDPR	Perception and computer vision	Paste it, see your gaps
Staff Software Engineer, Quantitative Evaluations Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Staff Software Engineer, Simulation Realism Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Readiness for AI Engineer
Staff Software Engineer, Simulator Platform Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Perception and computer vision	Paste it, see your gaps
Staff Software Engineer/ Tech Lead, Onboard Model Consolidation Mountain View, California, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Perception and computer vision Simulation and sim to real	Readiness for AI Engineer
Staff Systems Engineer, Depot & Offhail Automation Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Staff Systems Engineer, Hardware Architecture Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Readiness for AI Engineer
Staff Tech Lead Manager, Machine Learning, Simulator Evaluation Mountain View, California, United States; San Francisco, California, United States., posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Readiness for AI Evaluation Specialist
Staff Tech Lead Software Engineer, Vehicle Realism Platform Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Staff Tech Lead, Machine Learning Engineer, Perception Mountain View, California, United States; San Francisco, California, United States, posted 2026-09-21	Perception and computer vision Motion planning and control	Readiness for Robotics AI Engineer
Staff Tech Lead, Perception, Pre-training & Distillation Mountain View, California, United States, San Francisco, California, United States, posted 2026-09-21	Perception and computer vision Robot learning and foundation models Embedded and edge AI	Paste it, see your gaps
Staff Technical Lead Manager, ML Sensor Validation Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Staff Technical Lead Manager, Simulation, Machine Learning New York, NY, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Robot learning and foundation models	Paste it, see your gaps
Staff TLM, Perception, Sensor Pipelines Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Perception and computer vision	Paste it, see your gaps
System Safety Engineer, Operations & Fleet Response Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Functional safety and assurance	Readiness for AI Engineer
Tech Lead Manager ML Optimization Mountain View, California, United States, posted 2026-09-21	Motion planning and control Machine learning infrastructure	Paste it, see your gaps
Tech Lead Manager- Onboard Software Performance Mountain View, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Tech Lead Manager, Data Engineer Mountain View, California, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Machine learning infrastructure	Readiness for AI Engineer
Technical Lead Manager, Perception, Traffic Control Understanding Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Robot learning and foundation models	Paste it, see your gaps
Technical Lead Manager, Prediction, ML Evaluation Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Robot learning and foundation models	Paste it, see your gaps
Technical Program Manager, Onboard Systems, ML Modeling Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA, posted 2026-09-21	Robot learning and foundation models	Paste it, see your gaps
Technical Program Manager, Systems Engineering San Francisco, CA,US; Mountain View, CA, US, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Technical Specialist, ML Data Mountain View, CA, United States, posted 2026-09-21	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Software Engineer, Data Importer Warsaw, Poland, posted 2026-09-10	no taxonomy term in the body	Readiness for AI Engineer
Software Quality Operations Specialist, Safety Evaluation Hyderabad, Telangana, India, posted 2026-09-08	no taxonomy term in the body	Readiness for AI Evaluation Specialist
Field Safety Engineer, Japan / フィールド・セーフティ・エンジニア（日本） Tokyo, Japan, posted 2026-09-02	no taxonomy term in the body	Readiness for AI Engineer
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Simulation London, UK, posted 2026-09-02	Robot learning and foundation models	Readiness for AI Engineer
Senior Research Scientist, AI Foundations Recipes Oxford, UK ; London, UK, posted 2026-09-02	Robot learning and foundation models	Paste it, see your gaps
Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning Performance Taipei, Taiwan; Hsinchu, Taiwan, posted 2026-09-02	Embedded and edge AI	Readiness for AI Engineer
Software Engineer, Machine Learning Tooling Taipei, Taiwan; Hsinchu, Taiwan, posted 2026-09-02	no taxonomy term in the body	Readiness for AI Engineer
Software Quality Operations Specialist London, UK, posted 2026-09-02	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Simulation London, UK, posted 2026-09-02	Robot learning and foundation models	Readiness for AI Engineer
Staff Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer, Simulation London, UK, posted 2026-09-02	Robot learning and foundation models Machine learning infrastructure	Readiness for AI Engineer
Staff Software Engineer (TLM), Field Response Tokyo, Japan, posted 2026-09-02	no taxonomy term in the body	Paste it, see your gaps
Staff Software Engineer, Chassis Warsaw, Poland, posted 2026-09-02	Fleet operations and teleoperation	Paste it, see your gaps
Staff Software Engineer, Speciality PUDO Warsaw, Poland, posted 2026-09-02	Robot learning and foundation models	Paste it, see your gaps

Questions

How many physical AI jobs is Waymo hiring for?: 230 of Waymo's 358 open roles are technical as of September 28, 2026 (64.2 percent of the board). By family: perception and autonomy 111, ai and machine learning 85, safety and assurance 15, simulation and data 8, planning and control 6, hardware and embedded 5. Read weekly from Waymo's own job board.
Which standards do Waymo's postings name?: Functional safety standards (5), EU AI Act (1), GDPR (1).
What would I need to be ready for a technical role at Waymo?: The postings call for applied ai engineering, embodied ai and robotics systems, ai evaluation and testing design, how models work, at a governance depth, post-deployment monitoring and drift detection. Paste the posting you want into the readiness check to see which of these you can already prove and the graded path that closes the rest.

Part of the Physical AI Hiring Index, 765 roles at 10 employers, measured weekly. GAGE is not affiliated with Waymo; the postings are theirs.