Technical Lead Manager, Waymo

• 3+ years experience managing a production SWE team
• Proven record of excellent technical collaboration and decision making in a cross-functional environment
• Experience with one or more of ML for sensor data generation, AV simulation, graphics, video game development, distributed systems

Desirable

• The Sensor Sim Platform team develops and deploys sensor simulation technologies to solve some of Waymo's hardest problems in safety validation, onboard development and ML model training
• We work closely with research and partner teams on bleeding edge sensor simulation solutions, including Gaussian Splatting, GenAI Diffusion, Unreal Engine 5 and traditional ray tracing
• In addition to specific rendering solutions, the team is responsible for the distributed system and API hosting sensor simulation solutions
• This role would report to the Manager of Machine Learning
• You will lead a team of about 10 SWEs and 1 Tech Artist to develop production sensor simulation solutions
• The role is highly cross-functional, requiring tight collaboration with multiple research and onboard teams in a bleeding edge area
• You will be responsible for developing a technical roadmap that leverages and combines different sensor simulation approaches to accelerate Waymo's ability to scale safely
• You will be responsible for optimizing scale, reliability, eng excellence and the ability to plug in new approaches in a highly available distributed simulation platform

Total funding: $11.1bn

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.