Waymo H-1B Salaries 2026
315 certified H-1B Labor Condition Applications for full-time roles at Waymo, decided Jul 1, 2025 – Jun 30, 2026. Median offered salary $205,000.
$205,000Median salary
$200,00025th percentile
$240,00075th percentile
315Filings
Waymo H-1B salaries by job title
| Job title | Filings | Median |
|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 173 | $205,000 |
| Machine Learning Engineer | 11 | $240,000 |
| Research Scientist | 8 | $240,000 |
| Data Scientist | 7 | $205,000 |
| Researcher | 7 | $215,000 |
| Product Manager | 6 | $242,500 |
| Systems Test Engineer | 5 | $192,000 |
| Product Data Scientist | 4 | $208,500 |
| Silicon Engineer | 4 | $247,500 |
| Technical Program Manager | 4 | $230,000 |
| Technical Program Manager Commercialization | 3 | $270,000 |
| Machine Learning Engineer Mapping | 2 | $205,000 |
| Systems Engineer | 2 | $235,000 |
| Business Data Scientist | 2 | $208,500 |
| Software Engineer Planner | 2 | $200,000 |
Top cities
| City | Filings | Median |
|---|---|---|
| Mountain View, CA | 259 | $205,000 |
| San Francisco, CA | 25 | $205,000 |
| New York, NY | 18 | $205,000 |
| Kirkland, WA | 5 | $230,000 |
| Austin, TX | 2 | $188,000 |
| Bellevue, WA | 1 | $216,000 |
| Syracuse, NY | 1 | $256,000 |
| Washington, DC | 1 | $169,000 |
| Jersey City, NJ | 1 | $238,000 |
| Perrysburg, OH | 1 | $226,000 |
Wage levels
Prevailing-wage level the employer selected (I = entry, IV = fully competent).
Median prevailing wage on these filings: $187,741.
Recent Waymo H-1B filings
Latest 100 of 315 filings by decision date. Salary is the offered wage rate (annualised); "to" shows the top of a range when given.
| Certified | Job title | Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | ML Accelerator Modeling Engineer | $250,000 |
| 2026-06-26 | Perception Machine Learning Engineer | $250,000 |
| 2026-06-26 | Senior Software Engineer | $295,000 |
| 2026-06-26 | Research Scientist | $250,000 |
| 2026-06-23 | Researcher 5 | $250,000 |
| 2026-06-23 | Software Engineer | $230,000 |
| 2026-06-22 | Software Engineer | $188,000 |
| 2026-06-22 | Software Engineer, Vehicle Platforms | $165,000 |
| 2026-06-22 | Software Engineer | $250,000 |
| 2026-06-15 | Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Sensor Validation | $205,000 |
| 2026-06-11 | Vehicle Systems Test Engineer | $152,000 |
| 2026-06-10 | Software Engineer | $205,000 |
| 2026-06-10 | Software Engineer | $205,000 |
| 2026-06-08 | Product Data Scientist | $187,000 |
| 2026-06-08 | Software Quality Operations Specialist | $152,000 |
| 2026-06-05 | Software Engineer | $250,000 |
| 2026-06-05 | Machine Learning Engineer | $205,000 |
| 2026-06-04 | Software Engineer | $250,000 |
| 2026-06-04 | Machine Learning Engineer | $250,000 |
| 2026-06-03 | Software Engineer | $205,000 |
| 2026-06-02 | Software Engineer | $205,000 |
| 2026-06-01 | Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure | $230,000 |
| 2026-05-29 | Business Intelligence Analyst | $197,000 |
| 2026-05-28 | Software Engineer | $295,000 |
| 2026-05-27 | Research Scientist | $250,000 |
| 2026-05-27 | Enterprise QMS Manager | $187,000 |
| 2026-05-22 | Software Engineer | $205,000 |
| 2026-05-21 | Software Engineer | $250,000 |
| 2026-05-21 | Planner Reasoning - Generalist SWE | $205,000 |
| 2026-05-21 | Software Engineer | $205,000 |
| 2026-05-20 | Software Engineer | $205,000 |
| 2026-05-20 | Software Engineer | $250,000 |
| 2026-05-20 | Technical Program Manager, Commercialization | $187,000 |
| 2026-05-20 | Software Engineer | $205,000 |
| 2026-05-19 | Software Engineer, Onboard Developer Platform | $205,000 |
| 2026-05-19 | Software Engineer | $226,000 |
| 2026-05-18 | Software Engineer | $205,000 |
| 2026-05-18 | Software Engineer | $210,000 |
| 2026-05-15 | Generalist SWE | $205,000 |
| 2026-05-12 | Motion Systems Engineer, Actuators | $187,000 |
| 2026-05-11 | Software Engineer | $250,000 |
| 2026-05-08 | Software Engineer | $250,000 |
| 2026-05-08 | Software Engineer | $250,000 |
| 2026-05-08 | Software Engineer, Simulator Evaluation | $205,000 |
| 2026-05-08 | MLE, Semantics | $250,000 |
| 2026-05-07 | Software Engineer | $205,000 |
| 2026-05-07 | Software Engineer | $205,000 |
| 2026-05-07 | ML Engineer, Foundation Model Infrastructure | $250,000 |
| 2026-05-06 | Software Engineer | $250,000 |
| 2026-05-05 | Software Engineer | $250,000 |
| 2026-05-04 | Software Reliability Engineer | $205,000 |
| 2026-05-01 | Test Engineer | $220,000 |
| 2026-04-29 | Software Engineer | $205,000 |
| 2026-04-28 | Software Engineer | $165,000 |
| 2026-04-28 | Program Manager | $152,000 |
| 2026-04-22 | Technical Program Manager, Trade Security | $230,000 |
| 2026-04-21 | Generalist Software Engineer | $205,000 |
| 2026-04-20 | Software Engineer | $205,000 |
| 2026-04-20 | UX Designer | $336,000 |
| 2026-04-20 | Software Engineer | $250,000 |
| 2026-04-17 | Software Engineer | $301,000 |
| 2026-04-15 | Vehicle Electrical Distribution Engineer | $230,000 |
| 2026-04-14 | Data Scientist | $200,000 |
| 2026-04-14 | Software Engineer | $165,000 |
| 2026-04-13 | TLM, Data Mining and Sampling for ML and Evaluation | $350,000 |
| 2026-04-13 | Machine Learning Engineer | $250,000 |
| 2026-04-13 | Software Engineer | $255,000 |
| 2026-04-10 | Software Engineer | $250,000 |
| 2026-04-10 | Product Data Scientist | $230,000 |
| 2026-04-10 | Software Engineer | $165,000 |
| 2026-04-10 | Software Engineer | $205,000 |
| 2026-04-10 | Engineering Operations Specialist 3 | $120,016 |
| 2026-04-09 | Software Engineer | $250,000 |
| 2026-04-09 | Software Engineer | $205,000 |
| 2026-04-09 | Senior Data Scientist | $205,000 |
| 2026-04-09 | Machine Learning Engineer, ML Efficiency | $205,000 |
| 2026-04-09 | Software Engineer | $250,000 |
| 2026-04-09 | Analysis Infra SWE | $205,000 |
| 2026-04-09 | Senior ML Engineer, Simulation Realism | $205,000 |
| 2026-04-09 | Research Scientist | $165,000 |
| 2026-04-09 | Software Engineer | $165,000 |
| 2026-04-08 | Software Engineer | $205,000 |
| 2026-04-08 | Software Engineer | $255,000 |
| 2026-04-08 | Software Engineer | $255,000 |
| 2026-04-08 | Product Manager | $245,000 |
| 2026-04-08 | Software Engineer | $205,000 |
| 2026-04-07 | Software Engineer | $200,000 |
| 2026-04-07 | Software Engineer | $250,000 |
| 2026-04-07 | Software Engineer | $240,000 |
| 2026-04-07 | Technical Program Manager | $187,000 |
| 2026-04-07 | Software Engineer | $205,000 |
| 2026-04-07 | Hardware Engineer | $185,000 |
| 2026-04-07 | Software Engineer | $205,000 |
| 2026-04-06 | Research Scientist | $205,000 |
| 2026-04-06 | Technical Specialist, Mapping Operations | $125,008 |
| 2026-04-06 | Software Engineer | $209,000 |
| 2026-04-06 | Research Scientist | $250,000 |
| 2026-04-03 | Software Engineer | $200,000 |
| 2026-04-03 | Industrial Designer | $185,000 |
| 2026-04-03 | Technical Program Manager | $238,000 |
Employer names as filed: Waymo LLC. Name variants that differ only in case, punctuation or legal suffix (LLC, Inc., Corp.) are merged. Separate legal entities are listed separately. These are wages offered on certified LCAs, not actual pay.