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Waymo Salaries
Base pay from 269 open Waymo roles that list a salary range. Annual USD.
25th percentile
$198K
Median
$238K
75th percentile
$270K
Percentiles use the midpoint of each posted range. Lowest posted $120K, highest $431K.
Waymo pay by role
| Role | Location | Salary range |
|---|---|---|
| Principal Software Engineer, Onboard Field Response | Mountain View, CA, USA | $349K–$431K |
| Principal Software Engineer, Post Training | Mountain View, CA. USA | $349K–$431K |
| Director, Systems Integration, Diagnostics | Mountain View, CA, USA | $323K–$399K |
| Head of Industrial Design | Mountain View, CA, US | $323K–$399K |
| Tech Lead Manager ML Optimization | Mountain View, California, United States | $298K–$378K |
| Senior Data Science Manager, Driving Quality | Mountain View, California, USA | $298K–$368K |
| Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, LLM/VLM Model Architecture & Optimization | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; | $298K–$368K |
| Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Lead | Mountain View, CA, USA | $298K–$368K |
| Senior Staff Technical Lead Manager, In-Car Experience | Mountain View, CA, USA | $298K–$368K |
| Senior Staff Technical Lead Manager, Perception Optimization | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA | $298K–$368K |
| Site Reliability Engineering, Technical Lead Manager | Mountain View, CA, USA | $298K–$368K |
| Sr. Staff Data Architect | Mountain View, California, USA | $298K–$368K |
| Sr. Staff Software Engineer, DUE Experience | Mountain View, CA; Seattle, WA; New York City, NY; Los Angeles, CA | $298K–$368K |
| Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Fleet Orchestration, TLM | Mountain View, CA, United States; San Francisco, CA, United States | $298K–$368K |
| Sr Staff Tech Lead, Machine Learning Engineer, Perception | Mountain View, California, United States, San Francisco, California, United States | $298K–$368K |
| Embedded Software Technical Lead & Manager, Simulation | Mountain View, CA, USA | $281K–$356K |
| Senior Staff ML Engineer, Driver Understanding and Evaluation | Mountain View, CA, United States | $281K–$356K |
| 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. | $281K–$356K |
| Tech Lead, Self Driving Eval Infrastructure | Mountain View, CA, USA | $281K–$356K |
| Director, FP&A - HW Engineering & Supply Chain | Mountain View, CA, USA | $285K–$352K |
| Director, Product Data Science - Fleet Optimization and Orchestration | Mountain View, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, US | $272K–$336K |
| Senior Staff Regulatory and Compliance Systems Engineer | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA | $272K–$336K |
| Systems Engineering Lead, New Product Initiatives | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA USA | $272K–$336K |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Data Flywheel | Mountain View, CA USA; San Francisco, CA USA; | $250K–$335K |
| Staff Software Engineer / Technical Lead Manager | San Francisco, California, United States | $251K–$319K |
| Marketplace Platform, TLM | Mountain View, CA, USA | $251K–$310K |
| Senior Data Engineer | Mountain View, California, USA | $251K–$310K |
| Senior Staff Engineer, Agentic AI Engineering | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA | $251K–$310K |
| Staff Android Engineer, In-Car Experience | Mountain View, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, US | $251K–$310K |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Infrastructure | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA | $251K–$310K |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Maneuvering Tech | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Pittsburgh, PA, USA | $251K–$310K |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Mapping | Mountain View, CA, USA | $251K–$310K |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Simulation | Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA | $251K–$310K |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Simulation Realism | Mountain View, CA, USA | $251K–$310K |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Tech Lead, Labeling Automation | Mountain View, CA, USA | $251K–$310K |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Vision-Language Foundation Models | Mountain View, California, United States | $251K–$310K |
| Staff ML Engineer, Foundation Models | Mountain View, CA, USA | $251K–$310K |
| Staff ML Engineer, Perception Research | Mountain View, CA, USA ; New York City, NY, USA ; Kirkland, WA, USA ; San Francisco, CA, USA | $251K–$310K |
| Staff Research Scientist, Foundation Models Recipes | Mountain View, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, US; Kirkland, WA, US | $251K–$310K |
| Staff Research Scientist, Perception | Mountain View, CA, USA ; San Francisco, CA, USA ; Kirkland, WA, USA ; New York City, NY, USA | $251K–$310K |
| Staff SoC Design Engineer | Mountain View, CA, USA | $251K–$310K |
| Staff Software Engineer, 3D & Data Visualization Tools | Mountain View, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, US | $251K–$310K |
| Staff Software Engineer, Booking | Mountain View, CA, United States | $251K–$310K |
| Staff Software Engineer, Collision Avoidance Testing | Mountain View, Ca, USA;San Francisco, Ca, USA | $251K–$310K |
| Staff Software Engineer, Compute Reliability | Mountain View, California, USA | $251K–$310K |
| Staff Software Engineer, DUE Experience | Mountain View, CA, United States | $251K–$310K |
| Staff Software Engineer, Fleet Optimization | San Francisco, CA ; Mountain View, CA | $251K–$310K |
| Staff Software Engineer, Privacy | Mountain View, CA, USA | $251K–$310K |
| Staff Software Engineer, Quantitative Evaluations | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA | $251K–$310K |
| Staff Software Engineer - Simulation Realism | Mountain View, CA, USA | $251K–$310K |
| Staff Software Engineer, Simulator Platform | Mountain View, CA, USA | $251K–$310K |
| Staff Software Engineer/ Tech Lead - Onboard Model Consolidation | Mountain View, California, USA | $251K–$310K |
| Staff Software Engineer, TLM, Quantitative Evaluations | San Francisco, CA, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA | $251K–$310K |
| Staff Tech Lead, Machine Learning Engineer, Perception | Mountain View, California, United States; San Francisco, California, United States | $251K–$310K |
| Staff Tech Lead Manager, Machine Learning, Simulator Evaluation | Mountain View, California, United States; San Francisco, California, United States. | $251K–$310K |
| Staff Tech Lead, ML Data Infrastructure and Inference Platform | Mountain View, CA, USA | $251K–$310K |
| Staff Tech Lead, Perception, Pre-training & Distillation | Mountain View, California, United States, San Francisco, California, United States | $251K–$310K |
| Staff Tech Lead Software Engineer, Vehicle Realism Platform | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA | $251K–$310K |
| Staff Technical Lead Manager, Scenes | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA | $251K–$310K |
| Staff TLM, Perception, Sensor Pipelines | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA | $251K–$310K |
| Tech Lead, Fleet Response Infrastructure | Mountain View, California, United States | $251K–$310K |
| Tech Lead Manager, Data Engineer | Mountain View, California, USA | $251K–$310K |
| Technical Lead Manager, Perception, Traffic Control Understanding | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA | $251K–$310K |
| Technical Lead Manager, Prediction, ML Evaluation | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA | $251K–$310K |
| Technical Lead Manager, Pullover Maneuvers | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA | $251K–$310K |
| Technical Lead Manager, Query & Storage SWE | Mountain View, California, USA | $251K–$310K |
| Global Product Marketing Lead | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA | $249K–$307K |
| Senior Software Engineer, ML Evaluation Infra and Efficiency | Mountain View, California, United States | $238K–$302K |
| Senior Software Engineer, Training Efficiency | Mountain View, California, United States | $238K–$302K |
| Staff Data Scientist | Mountain View, California, USA; San Francisco, California, USA | $238K–$302K |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer(TLM), Driver Understanding and Evaluation | Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA | $238K–$302K |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer – VLM/LLM | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; New York City, NY, USA | $238K–$302K |
| Staff Technical Lead Manager, ML Sensor Validation | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA | $238K–$302K |
| Staff Technical Lead Manager, Simulation, Machine Learning | New York, NY, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA | $238K–$302K |
| Tech Lead Manager- Onboard Software Performance | Mountain View, CA, USA | $238K–$302K |
| Technical Lead Manager, Machine Learning, Maneuvering Tech | Mountain View, California, USA; San Francisco, California, USA | $238K–$302K |
| Technical Lead Manager, Multiverse | Mountain View, CA, USA | $238K–$302K |
| Field Safety – Operations Performance | Mountain View, CA, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA | $241K–$297K |
| Group Product Manager, DevAI & Agentic Workflows | Mountain View,CA,USA; San Francisco,CA,USA | $241K–$297K |
| Product Manager, Network Flows Optimization | San Francisco, CA, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA | $241K–$297K |
| Safety Case Research - Product Development Lead | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA | $241K–$297K |
| Senior Product Manager, Autonomous Vehicle Reliability | Mountain View, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, US | $241K–$297K |
| Senior Product Manager, Simulation | Mountain View, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, US | $241K–$297K |
| Senior System Safety Engineer, Operations & Fleet Response | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Seattle, WA, USA | $241K–$297K |
| System Safety Engineer, Strategic Programs & Integration | Mountain View, CA, USA, Kirkland, WA, USA | $241K–$297K |
| Head of Logistics | Mountain View, CA, USA | $238K–$294K |
| Access Operations Technical Specialist | Mountain View, CA, USA | $230K–$284K |
| Full Vehicle Platform Architect | Mountain View, CA, US | $230K–$284K |
| Lead Noise, Vibration, and Harshness (NVH) Engineer | Mountain View, California, USA | $230K–$284K |
| NPI Technical Program Manager | Mountain View, CA, USA; Novi, Michigan, USA | $230K–$284K |
| Staff Product Data Scientist, Experimentation | San Francisco, CA, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA | $230K–$284K |
| Staff Product Data Scientist, Infrastructure | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA | $230K–$284K |
| Staff Systems Engineer, Depot & Offhail Automation | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA | $230K–$284K |
| Staff Systems Engineer, Driving Behaviors | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA | $230K–$284K |
| Staff Systems Engineer, Hardware Architecture | Mountain View, CA, USA | $230K–$284K |
| Staff Systems Test Engineer, Scenario Quality and Maintenance Systems | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA | $230K–$284K |
| Structured Testing Vendor Engineering Lead | Mountain View, CA, USA | $230K–$284K |
| Technical Lead Manager, Collision Avoidance Testing | Mountain View, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, US | $230K–$284K |
| Technical Program Management, Service Quality | Mountain View, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, US | $230K–$284K |
| Head of Technical Services | Mountain View, CA, USA | $226K–$278K |