Waymo salaries
The median posted base pay for tech jobs at Waymo is $245K a year, from 168 open jobs with posted pay. The middle half of the jobs is from $232K to $281K. The median posted range is $228K to $263K. The median at Waymo is 29% above the median of all companies ($190K).
- Median posted base pay
- $245K
- Middle half of the jobs
- $232K to $281K
- 10th to 90th percentile
- $194K to $319K
- Open jobs with posted pay
- 168
Waymo pay by level
Posted base pay at Waymo, by the level in the job title. A level needs 3 or more jobs with posted pay.
- Level not stated41 jobs$195K$179K to $238K
- Senior64 jobs$238K$232K to $238K
- Staff59 jobs$281K$281K to $297K
| Level | 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th | Jobs with pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Level not stated | $178K | $179K | $195K | $238K | $269K | 41 |
| Senior | $219K | $232K | $238K | $238K | $281K | 64 |
| Staff | $257K | $281K | $281K | $297K | $333K | 59 |
Waymo pay by job type
The median for each job type at Waymo, compared with the median of all companies for the same job type. A job type needs 3 or more jobs with posted pay. One job can have more than one job type.
| Job type | Median at Waymo | Middle half | Median of all companies | Difference | Jobs with pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ML / AI engineering | $270K | $238K to $281K | $215K | +26% | 89 |
| Software engineering | $245K | $232K to $281K | $190K | +29% | 48 |
| Inference & ML systems | $247K | $238K to $281K | $225K | +10% | 44 |
| Infra, platform & SRE | $281K | $238K to $281K | $192K | +46% | 21 |
| Product management | $247K | $219K to $269K | $199K | +24% | 18 |
| Hardware and robotics | $198K | $195K to $248K | $170K | +16% | 7 |
| Research | $238K | $232K to $238K | $234K | +2% | 5 |
| Data science | $238K | $232K to $270K | $178K | +34% | 5 |
| Security engineering | $232K | $227K to $235K | $193K | +20% | 3 |
Open jobs at Waymo with posted pay
These are the 20 jobs with the highest posted pay, from 168 open jobs with posted pay. Each range is the base pay that Waymo posted.
- Principal Software Engineer, Onboard Field Response$349K to $431K
- Principal Software Engineer, Post Training$349K to $431K
- Director, Systems Integration, Diagnostics$323K to $399K
- Tech Lead Manager ML Optimization$298K to $378K
- Senior Staff Android Engineer, In-Car Experience$298K to $368K
- Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, LLM/VLM Model Architecture & Optimization$298K to $368K
- Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Perception, Simulation Realism$298K to $368K
- Senior Staff Manager, Data Science$298K to $368K
- Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Lead$298K to $368K
- Senior Staff Technical Lead Manager, Perception Optimization$298K to $368K
- Senior Staff Technical Lead, Simulator Platform Horizontal Integrations$298K to $368K
- Sr Staff Tech Lead, Machine Learning Engineer, Perception$298K to $368K
- Sr. Staff Software Engineer, DUE Experience$298K to $368K
- Tech Lead Manager, Data Engineer$298K to $368K
- Embedded Software Technical Lead & Manager, Simulation$281K to $356K
- Senior Staff ML Engineer, Driver Understanding and Evaluation$281K to $356K
- Senior Staff TLM, Data Mining and Sampling for ML and Evaluation$281K to $356K
- Tech Lead, Self Driving Eval Infrastructure$281K to $356K
- Group Product Manager, Depot Operations Automation$286K to $353K
- Senior Staff Regulatory and Compliance Systems Engineer$272K to $336K
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How we compute these numbers
We read each job from the job board of the company and check it every day. We use only open jobs that state a yearly pay range in US dollars. One job counts with the middle point of its posted range. The median is the middle value of these amounts: half of the jobs are above it and half are below it.
We do not use a range with a bottom below $15,000, a top above $1,000,000, or a top that is more than four times the bottom. A company needs 5 or more open jobs with posted pay to have a page. Jobs under the same company name count as one company.
The numbers are base pay as the company posted it. They are not the pay of a person, and they do not include stock, a bonus or benefits. For the stock and the bonus that people reported, see Reported pay.