Autonomous Vehicle and Self-Driving AI Jobs (2026)

Self driving work breaks into a few well known layers: perception, which turns camera, lidar and radar data into objects; prediction and motion planning, which decide what those objects will do and how the vehicle should respond; and the simulation, data and safety tooling around them. The listings in this hub map onto those layers, with recent titles including machine learning engineer for motion planning and prediction, machine learning engineer for perception, and staff ML engineer in perception research.

About 360 listings are live as of September 2026, and roughly 20 were added in the past week. Waymo is the most frequent employer with about 33 roles, Nuro has about 25, and Anduril, Shield AI, May Mobility, Zipline and Torc Robotics follow. Autonomy now extends past cars: drones, delivery aircraft, trucks and defense systems all appear, which is why Anduril and Shield AI sit next to Waymo.

The category split is robotics and embodied AI at about 215 and computer vision at about 130, with a handful of ML engineer and research scientist roles. Mid level roles are the largest band at about 170, then senior at about 70, staff or principal at about 55 and lead or manager at about 50. Sixty-seven percent of the hub is tagged remote, a higher share than the board overall; the listings include data, quality and consulting titles as well as vehicle side engineering.

The US names about 95 listings, with Germany, the UK, Singapore and Canada in single or low double digits. About 14 percent of listings state a USD salary and their median midpoint is around $212,500 a year; most do not publish pay. Search with the category filter to split perception from planning, and look at the computer vision and robotics AI hubs for adjacent work. Company pages for Waymo, Nuro, Cruise and Aurora list each employer's open roles in one place.