Waymo salary data
Waymo publishes pay ranges on 409 of its open roles. These are the company's own published figures, not estimates or crowd-sourced guesses.
Last checked 02 October 2026
$232k
Median midpoint
$107k
Lowest published
$431k
Highest published
409
Roles with pay
Pay by role at Waymo
| Role | Openings | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 72 | $170k | $431k |
| Manager | 53 | $152k | $378k |
| Machine Learning Engineer | 52 | $170k | $368k |
| Engineer | 48 | $159k | $336k |
| Operations | 31 | $120k | $352k |
| Project & Program Manager | 25 | $107k | $336k |
| Product Manager | 13 | $204k | $353k |
| Data Scientist | 10 | $170k | $310k |
| Director & Head of | 8 | $210k | $431k |
| Recruiter | 8 | $137k | $352k |
| Research Scientist | 7 | $204k | $310k |
| Mobile Engineer | 7 | $175k | $310k |
| Legal | 5 | $152k | $368k |
| Marketing Manager | 5 | $144k | $307k |
| Finance | 4 | $130k | $247k |
| Technician & Trades | 4 | $130k | $284k |
| Data Analyst | 4 | $168k | $247k |
| Architect | 4 | $170k | $368k |
| Marketing | 4 | $159k | $247k |
| DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer | 4 | $158k | $368k |
| Specialist | 3 | $130k | $202k |
| Data Engineer | 2 | $251k | $310k |
Where this comes from. Every figure is taken from Waymo's own job board and recorded each day. When a range changes, we keep both the old number and the new one — which is how you can see pay moving rather than just where it stands today. Figures above cover annual salaries only; 45 further roles are quoted at an hourly or monthly rate are excluded so they don't distort the ranges.
Roles with published pay
| Role | Location | Team | Salary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Technical Program Manager, Commercialization - Expansion new | Mountain View, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, US | Product (78L) | $196k – $242k |
| Network Operations Manager new | Phoenix, TX USA | IT (6D3) | $175k – $215k |
| Senior Software Engineer, Chassis new | San Francisco, CA, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA | CSI (7LV) | $213k – $263k |
| Product Quality Engineer, Automotive Sensors new | Mountain View, CA, USA | Other SDS Systems (77O) | $210k – $259k |
| California State Policy Manager | Sacramento, CA, USA (Remote) | O-Policy-Corp (67C) | $177k – $218k |
| Senior Software Engineer | Mountain View ; CA San Francisco, CA | CSI (7LV) | $213k – $263k |
| Talent Acquisition Operations, Program Manager | Mountain View, CA, USA | HR (67F) | $159k – $196k |
| Technical Lead Manager, Motion Control Test Engineering | Mountain View, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, US | Systems (78I) | $230k – $284k |
| Technical Lead Manager, Collision Avoidance Testing | Mountain View, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, US | Systems (78I) | $230k – $284k |
| Senior Systems Integration Engineer | Mountain View, CA, USA | HW Systems (7SH) | $196k – $242k |
| Network Operations Manager | Austin, TX, USA | IT (6D3) | $175k – $215k |
| System Safety Engineer, Strategic Programs & Integration | Mountain View, CA, USA, Kirkland, WA, USA | Safety (7GB) | $241k – $297k |
| Staff Tech Lead, ML Data Infrastructure and Inference Platform | Mountain View, CA, USA | Sys Intel and Machine Lrng (SQT) | $251k – $310k |
| Vehicle Product Engineer | Mountain View, CA, USA | Other SDS Systems (77O) | $210k – $259k |
| Proving Ground Technician Manager | Tempe, AZ, USA | FDR - Central (F7U) | $130k – $137k |
| Research Scientist, World Model Post-Training | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA | AI Foundations (7SJ) | $213k – $263k |
| Global Experiential Marketing Manager | Playa Vista, CA, USA; New York City, NY, USA | O-Marketing-Corp (0K5) | $210k – $259k |
| New Platform Enablement Manager (HW/Ops Design Excellence) | San Francisco, CA, US | ProdOps (WY1) | $159k – $196k |
| Partner & Enterprise Support Lead | San Francisco, CA, USA | Ops General Pgm Mgmt (89M) | $226k – $278k |
| Staff Tech Lead Software Engineer, Vehicle Realism Platform | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA | Simulation (7XW) | $251k – $310k |
| Program Manager, Regulatory Reporting | Mountain View, CA, United States; Remote, United States | MPCI (SQZ) | $190k – $234k |
| Machine Learning Engineer, Driver Refinement & Validation, Perception | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA | Perception (7LT) | $175k – $215k |
| Technical Program Manager - Onboard Systems, ML Modeling | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA | Product (78L) | $159k – $196k |
| Staff Tech Lead Manager, Machine Learning, Simulator Evaluation | Mountain View, California, United States; San Francisco, California, United States. | Simulation (7XW) | $251k – $310k |
| Facilities Market Lead, Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA, USA | GPS Offices/Labs/Mfg (69Z) | $152k – $187k |
| Head of Technical Services | Mountain View, CA, USA | GPS Offices/Labs/Mfg (69Z) | $226k – $278k |
| Staff Android Engineer, In-Car Experience | Mountain View, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, US | CSI (7LV) | $251k – $310k |
| Technical Lead Manager, Pullover Maneuvers | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA | Planner (7LU) | $251k – $310k |
| AV Fleet & Supply Operations Manager - San Francisco | San Francisco, CA, USA | RHO - Market Mgmt (GWE) | $159k – $196k |
| Charging Automation Lead | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA | GPS Offices/Labs/Mfg (69Z) | $190k – $234k |
| Public Relations Manager, Partnerships | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA | Comms (67E) | $168k – $207k |
| Finance Operations Lead, Procure-to-Pay | Mountain View, CA, USA | Finance (64L) | $238k – $294k |
| Senior Software Engineer, Mapping Data & Eval | San Francisco, CA, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA | CSI (7LV) | $213k – $263k |
| Field Safety – Operations Performance | Mountain View, CA, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA | Safety (7GB) | $241k – $297k |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Predictive Planner, Systems Arch | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA | Planner (7LU) | $213k – $263k |
| Head of Industrial Design | Mountain View, CA, US | Industrial Design (78N) | $323k – $399k |
| Research Scientist, Map Scalability | Mountain View, CA, U.S.A ; San Francisco, CA, U.S.A ; New York City, NY, U.S.A | AI Foundations (7SJ) | $213k – $263k |
| Knowledge and Support Readiness Manager, Waymo Rider Support | Tempe, AZ, USA | RHO - Operations Center (M6D) | $159k – $196k |
| Program Manager, Expansion | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA | Product (78L) | $159k – $196k |
| Strategic Sourcing Manager - Contract Manufacturing & Compute | Mountain View, CA, USA | GSM (J4P) | $200k – $247k |
| Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Lead | Mountain View, CA, USA | CSI (7LV) | $298k – $368k |
| Brand Marketing Operations Manager | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA | O-Marketing-Corp (0K5) | $144k – $177k |
| Aftermarket Commercial Lead | Mountain View, CA, USA | Mfg (JDS) | $168k – $207k |
| Staff Tech Lead, Perception, Pre-training & Distillation | Mountain View, California, United States, San Francisco, California, United States | Perception (7LT) | $251k – $310k |
| Staff Systems Engineer, Depot & Offhail Automation | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA | Systems (78I) | $230k – $284k |
| Sr Staff Tech Lead, Machine Learning Engineer, Perception | Mountain View, California, United States, San Francisco, California, United States | Perception (7LT) | $298k – $368k |
| Policy Advisor | Mountain View, CA, USA | O-Policy-Corp (67C) | $144k – $177k |
| Senior Actuary | San Francisco, CA, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA | O-Insur-Corp (6A1) | $196k – $242k |
| Staff Software Engineer, Fleet Optimization | San Francisco, CA ; Mountain View, CA | CSI (7LV) | $251k – $310k |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Vehicle Interaction & Behavior Policy ML | Mountain View, California, USA | Perception (7LT) | $213k – $263k |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Multimodal Perception | Mountain View, California, USA | Perception (7LT) | $213k – $263k |
| Sr. Staff Data Architect | Mountain View, California, USA | CSI (7LV) | $298k – $368k |
| Senior Data Scientist, Simulation Capacity Optimization | Mountain View, CA, USA | Simulation (7XW) | $213k – $263k |
| Research Scientist, RL for Autonomous Planning & World Modeling | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; New York City, NY, USA | AI Foundations (7SJ) | $204k – $259k |
| AV Compliance Lead, Fleet & Operator Compliance | Mountain View, CA, USA | Regulatory Compliance (CBU) | $200k – $247k |
| Senior FP&A Analyst, Operations | Mountain View, CA, USA | Finance (64L) | $168k – $207k |
| Strategy & Operations Manager, Public Relations | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA | Comms (67E) | $200k – $247k |
| Senior Product Manager, Autonomous Vehicle Reliability | Mountain View, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, US | Product (78L) | $241k – $297k |
| Operational Risk Manager | San Francisco, CA, USA; Tempe, AZ, USA; Washington, D.C., USA | ProdOps (WY1) | $159k – $196k |
| Site Reliability Engineering, Technical Lead Manager | Mountain View, CA, USA | CSI (7LV) | $298k – $368k |
| Principal Software Engineer, Post Training | Mountain View, CA. USA | Planner (7LU) | $349k – $431k |
| Staff ML Engineer, Foundation Models | Mountain View, CA, USA | AI Foundations (7SJ) | $251k – $310k |
| Senior Signal and Power Integrity Engineer | Mountain View, CA, USA | Signal (83K) | $196k – $242k |
| Manager, Resilience Risk | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA | Safety (7GB) | $200k – $247k |
| Lead, Resilience Governance | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Tempe, AZ, USA | Safety (7GB) | $168k – $207k |
| Specialist, Incident Readiness | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Tempe, AZ, USA | Safety (7GB) | $137k – $169k |
| Partner Audit Remediation Program Manager | Remote, US | PVEO (KPL) | $159k – $196k |
| Design Studio Process Manager | Mountain View, CA, USA | GPS Offices/Labs/Mfg (69Z) | $190k – $234k |
| Director, FP&A - HW Engineering & Supply Chain | Mountain View, CA, USA | Finance (64L) | $285k – $352k |
| Software Engineer, Marketplace Logistic | Mountain View, CA, United States | CSI (7LV) | $175k – $215k |
| Senior Vehicle Structures Engineer | Mountain View, CA, USA;Novi, MI, USA | Vehicle (75W) | $198k – $248k |
| Staff Software Quality Safety Operations Specialist | Mountain View, CA, United States; Remote, United States | MPCI (SQZ) | $190k – $234k |
| Perception Machine Learning Engineer - Continuous Learning | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA | Perception (7LT) | $175k – $215k |
| Staff Hardware Reliability Engineer | Mountain View, California, USA | Reliability (7FZ) | $210k – $259k |
| Lead Noise, Vibration, and Harshness (NVH) Engineer | Mountain View, California, USA | Vehicle (75W) | $230k – $284k |
| Senior Vehicle Interior Engineer | Mountain View, Ca USA;Novi, Mi, USA | Vehicle (75W) | $196k – $248k |
| Staff ML Engineer, Perception Research | Mountain View, CA, USA ; New York City, NY, USA ; Kirkland, WA, USA ; San Francisco, CA, USA | AI Foundations (7SJ) | $251k – $310k |
| Structured Testing Vendor Engineering Lead | Mountain View, CA, USA | Systems (78I) | $230k – $284k |
| Staff Software Engineer, Collision Avoidance Testing | Mountain View, Ca, USA;San Francisco, Ca, USA | Systems (78I) | $251k – $310k |
| Staff Systems Test Engineer, Scenario Quality and Maintenance Systems | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA | Scenarios (SQE) | $230k – $284k |
| Technical Program Manager, Vehicle Security | Novi, Michigan, United States | Product (78L) | $196k – $242k |
| Staff SoC Design Engineer | Mountain View, CA, USA | Compute (7LR) | $251k – $310k |
| Staff Systems Engineer, Driving Behaviors | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA | Systems (78I) | $230k – $284k |
| Staff Research Scientist, Foundation Models Recipes | Mountain View, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, US; Kirkland, WA, US | AI Foundations (7SJ) | $251k – $310k |
| Insurance Risk Management Analyst | Mountain View, CA, USA | O-Insur-Corp (6A1) | $125k – $152k |
| Strategic Partner Development Manager, Payments Partnerships | New York City, New York, USA; San Francisco, California, USA | Partnerships/BD (PPL) | $177k – $218k |
| Accountant | Mountain View, CA, USA | Finance (64L) | $130k – $160k |
| Senior Product Manager, Simulation | Mountain View, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, US | Product (78L) | $241k – $297k |
| Training Delivery Manager (Fleet Maintenance & Validation TTT) | San Francisco, CA, USA; Tempe, AZ, USA | ProdOps (WY1) | $159k – $196k |
| Vehicle Systems Safety | Mountain View CA USA; San Francisco CA USA; Kirkland WA USA | Safety (7GB) | $204k – $252k |
| Safety Engineer - Risk Management | Mountain View CA USA; San Francisco CA USA | Safety (7GB) | $204k – $252k |
| People Operations Program Manager – People Systems & Process Design | Mountain View, CA, USA | HR (67F) | $159k – $196k |
| Vehicle Package and Integration Lead | Mountain View, CA, USA | Vehicle (75W) | $196k – $242k |
| Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Fleet Orchestration, TLM | Mountain View, CA, United States; San Francisco, CA, United States | CSI (7LV) | $298k – $368k |
| Staff Product Data Scientist, Experimentation | San Francisco, CA, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA | Product (78L) | $230k – $284k |
| Staff Business Intelligence Analyst, Resilience | San Francisco, CA; Mountain View, CA | Product (78L) | $200k – $247k |
| Full Vehicle Platform Architect | Mountain View, CA, US | Vehicle (75W) | $230k – $284k |
| Senior Corporate Accountant - Assets & Inventory Operations | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA | Finance (64L) | $159k – $196k |
| Component Engineer | Mountain View, CA, USA | GSM (J4P) | $200k – $247k |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Vision-Language Foundation Models | Mountain View, California, United States | Perception (7LT) | $251k – $310k |
| Senior Manager, Product Data Science - Operations & Intelligence | Mountain View, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, US | Product (78L) | $272k – $336k |
| Senior Software Engineer, Fleet Response Infrastructure | Mountain View, California, United States of America | CSI (7LV) | $213k – $263k |
| Escalation Manager | Tempe, AZ, USA | RHO - Operations Center (M6D) | $159k – $196k |
| Business System Analyst, ServiceNow Solution Architect | Mountain View, CA USA | IT (6D3) | $168k – $207k |
| Senior Software Engineer, ICX Graphics | Mountain View, California, USA | CSI (7LV) | $213k – $263k |
| Product Manager, Fleet Management Tools | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA | Product (78L) | $204k – $252k |
| Access Operations Technical Specialist | Mountain View, CA, USA | PVEO (KPL) | $230k – $284k |
| Senior Program Manager, Expansion | New York, NY, USA | Product (78L) | $190k – $234k |
| AI Enablement Lead | Mountain View, CA, USA | IT (6D3) | $200k – $247k |
| Senior ML Compiler Engineer, Compute | Mountain View, CA, US; New York, NY, US | Compute (7LR) | $213k – $263k |
| Product Partnerships Development Manager- In Car Experience, Media Integrations | San Francisco, CA, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA | Partnerships/BD (PPL) | $177k – $218k |
| Systems Engineering Lead, New Product Initiatives | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA USA | Systems (78I) | $272k – $336k |
| Commercial Counsel | Mountain View, CA, USA | Legal (67B) | $251k – $310k |
| Sr. Staff Software Engineer, DUE Experience | Mountain View, CA; Seattle, WA; New York City, NY; Los Angeles, CA | Simulation (7XW) | $298k – $368k |
| Network Delivery Program Manager | Washington DC USA | IT (6D3) | $168k – $207k |
| Network Operations Manager | Mountain View CA | IT (6D3) | $175k – $215k |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Simulation | Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA | Simulation (7XW) | $251k – $310k |
| Strategic Partner Manager, Commercialization | Mountain View, California, USA; San Francisco, California, USA | Partnerships/BD (PPL) | $177k – $218k |
| Product Manager, Fleet Simulation | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA | Product (78L) | $204k – $252k |
| Regulatory Counsel | Washington D.C., USA | Legal (67B) | $251k – $310k |
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