Tech Lead Manager, Waymo
Hill-Climbing & Launch Evaluation
$238-302k
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
$238-302k
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
- Engineering Management Experience: 2+ years of experience directly managing software engineering teams, including performance management, hiring, and retention
- Technical Background: Previous background as a software engineer or technical lead (5+ years) with a strong understanding of evaluation frameworks and methodologies, scalable data pipelines and performance benchmarks
- Delivery Track Record: Proven ability to manage complex technical projects with ambiguous requirements and multiple stakeholders, delivering on time and at quality
- Data-Driven Mindset: Experience using metrics and data to drive team improvements and measure project success
- Strategic Thinking: Ability to translate high-level business goals (e.g., "Launch in Austin") into concrete technical roadmaps and team priorities
Desirable
- Domain Expertise: Experience working in Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics, or Safety-Critical systems
- ML/Data Experience: Familiarity with the lifecycle of Machine Learning models, specifically regarding evaluation, validation, testing, or "ground truth" data generation
- Scale: Experience managing teams that own large-scale data processing pipelines (Spark, Flume, Beam) or high-throughput systems
What the job involves
- In this hybrid role, you will report to an Engineering Manager
- People Management & Growth: Manage, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of software engineers (levels ranging from Junior to Staff), handling performance reviews, career planning, and hiring
- Strategy & Roadmap: Define the technical strategy and 12+ month roadmap for evaluation frameworks that allow for rapid, safe and smooth hill-climbing & release for Waymo Perception models, accelerating multi-city expansion and keeping alignment with company-wide safety goals
- Execution & Delivery: Oversee the end-to-end delivery of complex evaluation platforms and data pipelines, removing blockers and ensuring the team meets critical release deadlines and accelerates the evolution of Perception models.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Serve as the primary point of contact for the team, collaborating deeply with ML researchers, simulation & ML infra teams, and safety experts to define & measure what "success" looks like for the Waymo Driver
- Technical Guidance: Guide technical decision-making and architectural trade-offs (without necessarily writing the code), ensuring the team builds scalable, maintainable, and reliable systems
- Organizational Health: Foster a culture of psychological safety, technical excellence, and inclusivity, while managing team capacity and resource planning
Our take
Waymo, Alphabet's self-driving car company, is changing the way people get around, Its robotaxis, which don't need a human driver, are already operating in cities like Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Austin. Soon, Waymo will expand to Detroit, Las Vegas, and San Diego, showing just how autonomous cars are moving from experiments to real-world transportation.
The company has already completed over 10M fully driverless rides and driven more than 100M miles. Its cars use advanced sensors and AI to navigate streets safely, while partnerships with Uber and DoorDash show that Waymo's technology works for both passengers and deliveries. And it's feeling ambitious too, hoping to offer one million trips per week by the end of 2026.
Even with competitors like Tesla and Zoox, Waymo is leading the autonomous ride-hailing market. Its cars have fewer crashes and keep passengers safer than traditional vehicles. With international plans for London and Japan, Waymo isn't just growing in the US, its setting its sights on shaping the future of transportation worldwide.
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Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Feb 2026
$16bn
LATE VC
Aug 2024
$5.6bn
SERIES C
Total funding: $27.1bn
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents
- Employee assistance programs focused on mental health
- Personalized workplace adjustments for diverse needs and abilities, including physical, mental, and neurodivergent considerations
- Access to mental health apps
- Onsite wellness centers
- Second medical opinion for you and your loved ones
- Medical advocacy program for transgender employees
- Counseling services
- Support programs including menopause benefit
- Competitive compensation
- Regular bonus and equity performance grant opportunities
- Generous 401(k) and regional retirement plans
- Annual cross-company compensation review and pay equity analysis
- 1-on-1 financial coaching
- Fertility and growing family assistance
- Parental leave and baby bonding leave
- Caregiver leave
- Elder care and support
- Backup childcare
- Survivor income benefit
- Paid time off, including vacation, bereavement, sick leave, parental leave, disability, and holidays
- Jury duty leave
- Military leave
- Hybrid work model with remote work opportunities also available
- Educational reimbursement
- Peer learning and coaching platform
- Donation matching programs
- Employee resource groups
- Volunteer hours
- Internal community groups and local culture clubs
- Inspiring spaces to work, recharge, and collaborate with fellow Waymonauts
- On-site meals and snacks
- Fitness centers, massage programs, and ergonomic support
- On-demand fitness, wellbeing, and cooking classes
- Commuter benefits
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Dmitri Dolgov
(Co-CEO)Dmitri joined Waymo in 2016 as CTO, becoming Co-CEO in 2021. Prior to this, he spent nearly 8 years at Google as a Distinguished Software Engineer and 2 years at Toyota Research Institute as a Senior Research Scientist.
Tekedra N. Mawakana
(Co-CEO)Tekedra joined Waymo in 2017 as the Global Head of Policy, holding various roles before becoming Co-CEO in 2021. Previously, she was the VP of Global Government Relations and Public Policy at eBay and VP and Deputy General Counsel of GLobal Public Policy at Yahoo.
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