Technical Lead Manager, Waymo
Simulation
$226-286k
Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan
Autonomous driving technology
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Autonomous driving technology
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$226-286k
Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make it simpler and safer for people to move things and themselves around.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ year of experience leading engineering teams of 5-15 people, delivering on both short-term goals and long-term strategic plans
- Leverage technical expertise to communicate with engineering leads, assessing technical trade-offs and their impacts on project scope, risk, and timelines
- 5+ years of experience developing, and deploying internal tools that improve engineering efficiency or productivity
- 5+ years of experience in full-stack Web development, comfortable with both front-end and back-end
- 5+ years of experience managing engineers, including conducting performance reviews, promoting career development, and facilitating collaboration
- BS in Computer Science or related field
Desirable
- Advanced degree (MS or Ph.D.) in Computer Science or a related field and 10+ years of software engineering experience
- Familiarity with human-computer interaction (HCI) principles and experience crowdsourcing platforms or human-in-the-loop systems
- 5+ years of experience programming in C++
- 5+ years of experience programming in TypeScript
- Experience leading geographically distributed engineering teams
What the job involves
- As a Technical Lead / Manager in the Driver Understanding and Evaluation Experience team, you will lead our Assessment Tooling team
- This team develops the user-facing tools and infrastructure that are used internally to understand the Waymo Driver’s performance
- These web-based applications help to smooth the build, evaluate, launch workflow and are used by every part of Waymo, including SWEs, PMs, Data Scientists, Ops, and Research
- They are a core part of solving almost every self-driving challenge that Waymo faces
- You will lead a team of Software Engineers and collaborate with users, Product Managers, and our UX team to build products that improve Waymo’s engineering capabilities around our toughest self-driving challenges
- In this hybrid role, you will report to a Senior Engineering Manager
- Manage a team to deliver tooling to facilitate human evaluation of driving events
- Build quarterly and annual technical roadmaps that meet product requirements and manage work on the team towards those goals
- Collaborate across departments and align execution to meet product goals
- Partner with technical leads, product managers and program managers to lead execution on broad efforts
- Lead proactive risk management efforts and contingency plans across the program landscape to achieve the program
- Set up and sustain mechanisms that promote organizational efficiencie.s, and improve speed of decision-making and execution
Application process
- Upon hire, all employees are required to submit proof of legal right to work, consistent with applicable law
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
Insights
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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