Director of Engineering, Waymo
Machine Learning
$323-410k
Plus discretionary annual bonus program and equity incentive plan
Office located in Mountain View, CA
Autonomous driving technology
Be an early applicant
Autonomous driving technology
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$323-410k
Plus discretionary annual bonus program and equity incentive plan
Office located in Mountain View, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make it simpler and safer for people to move things and themselves around.
Role
Who you are
- If you're a software engineer or researcher who's curious and passionate about Level 4 autonomous driving, we'd like to meet you
- Deep learning expertise, including recent innovation in large pre-trained foundational models and architecture performance optimizations
- PhD in ML, specifically with a deep-learning focus
- 4+ years of experience managing large teams (50+ people) in complex, fast growth environments
- Strong track record in designing org structures and growing people
- Execution mindset and skills in a fast paced environment
Desirable
- Experience in ML infrastructure, and how to build a culture with sustainable engineering practices
- Managed organizations (100+ people)
- Led an organization through a time of technical or product change
- Experience co-developing closely with research teams
- A strong publication record
What the job involves
- In this hybrid role, you will report to a Director in Machine Learning
- Push forward on the state of the art of deep learning to solve extremely challenging real world robotics problems that is already driving at large scale
- Manage multiple teams of world class machine learning software engineers
- Drive the short term and long term technical vision in a space where the long term is an open research problem
- Develop a strong collaborative relationship with peers spanning across the entire company
Our take
Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company that began as the Google self-driving car project in 2009. After initial development, it secured permits to deploy autonomous ride-hailing services in cities including Phoenix and San Francisco, but has recently hit a major bump in the road with safety concerns that resulted in a recall of over 400 self-driving cars.
With the autonomous driving industry already besieged by setbacks and public distrust, this development does Waymo no favours. That said, as an industry leader there remains the possibility it will see out the storm, but massive attention will need to be given to rebuilding trust with consumers if this is to be the case.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Aug 2024
$5.6bn
SERIES C
Jun 2021
$2.5bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $11.1bn
Company values
- Our customers are at the heart of everything we do
- Safety is our foundation
- We pioneer
- Act with thoughtful urgency
- Respect each other
- Be responsible owners
- We’re stronger together
- Optionality creates opportunities
- Always be learning
- Celebrate progress
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
Articles
Leadership
Dmitri Dolgov
(Co-CEO, not founder)Former CTO of the company. After a PhD at the University of Michigan, they worked as a Stanford Postdoctoral Researcher before moving to the Toyota Research Institute. They also spent 8 years at Google as a Software Engineer.
Tekedra N. Mawakana
(Co-CEO, not founder)Has worked at Waymo since 2017, as Global Head of Policy then CXO then COO before becoming Co-CEO. They are on the Board of Advisors at Operator Collective, Board of Directors at Intuit, and an Advisor for Boom Supersonic.
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