Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.
Waymo’s Technical Program Managers are accountable for Waymo’s roadmap execution by providing thoughtful cross-functional planning, clarity, and proactive risk management. In the face of complex technical and operational challenges with no established playbooks to follow, we act with thoughtful urgency, driving conversations, discussions, and outcomes. Our team partners closely with every function of Waymo to structure, own and drive work towards real-world deployments of the Waymo Driver across platforms and geographies.
This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports and you will report to a Manager of Technical Program Management.
You will:
- Collaborate with primary Onboard Systems Infrastructure partners (Product Managers and Engineering) to lead and manage the execution of Waymo's comprehensive Onboard Systems Infrastructure
- Keep track of progress on helping teams manage and improve the capabilities, efficiency, usability, scalability, and performance of Onboard System Infrastructure
- Align programs on core goals amidst ambiguity, supporting a wide range of capabilities while simultaneously managing cross-functional programs
- Prioritize decisions that benefit the Onboard Systems Infrastructure as a whole over optimizing for specific organizations
- Manage without direct authority, maintaining clear upward, outward, and downward alignment across program communications
You have:
- 8+ years of infrastructure related experience
- STEM background
- Large scale program management experience (multiple projects, multiple stakeholders, large teams, complex team setup)
- Computer science background
- Experience with machine learning
We prefer:
- Experience as a professional software developer within a large-scale corporate environment
- PhD or advanced technology degree
- Prior experience with autonomous driving
- Prior experience with software simulation tools
- Experience collaborating with global, distributed teams across multiple geographic locations
The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process.
Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.
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Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to move around. With the Waymo Driver, we can improve the world’s mobility while saving thousands of lives.
Waymo reaches out to candidates from official channels only (e.g. directly from @waymo.com email addresses, or through our recruiters or sourcers who are noted as such on LinkedIn). We do not contact candidates about career opportunities through instant messaging apps like Telegram, email addresses from domains other than waymo.com (such as Gmail addresses), direct messages on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, or text messages. Visit waymo.com to check out our official job listings.
