Product Manager, Waymo
Evalulation
$204-259k
+ Discretionary annual bonus program + Equity incentive plan
Office located in Mountain View, CA or San Francisco, CA
Autonomous driving technology
Be an early applicant
Autonomous driving technology
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$204-259k
+ Discretionary annual bonus program + Equity incentive plan
Office located in Mountain View, CA or San Francisco, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make it simpler and safer for people to move things and themselves around.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years experience working on AV, Robotics, or products that utilize Machine Learning or AI
- Experience in analytical roles or machine learning roles, interacting with data scientists
- Experience working in distributed systems, data infrastructure and/or cloud computing
- Ability to think about long-term product vision, and then decompose that into concrete, actionable plans with cross-org alignment
Desirable
- Experience with Simulation or Evaluation of AVs, Large Foundational Model training / evaluation pipelines or the evaluation / experimentation platforms for large production systems (Ads, Search, Ranking, etc..)
- Experience launching new features in an evaluation / experimentation platform used by Data Scientists or engineers
- Experience building tools, especially simulation or eval platforms used by engineers and / or data scientists. Emphasis on building simple, guided User Experiences
- Master's degree in a technical or engineering field, or equivalent practical experience
What the job involves
- Waymo's Product Management Team is a mission-driven team responsible for writing and enacting first-of-their-kind playbooks to bring fully autonomous driving technology to market
- Our team develops simple solutions for complex problems by orchestrating cross-functional efforts to safely drive Waymo's technology and the products it enables forward. We do this by understanding the customer, the business, and the technology. We are humble about the scope of our work, collaborative in our approach to problem-solving, and ambitious about our vision for the future
- In this Hybrid role, you will report to a Senior Product Manager
- Understand our users -- there are many different ways we leverage simulation to make data-driven decisions at Waymo: improve models that drive the car, assess our performance in a new environment or validate the readiness of a new vehicle platform. Each of these decisions requires a commitment to safety
- Work with a team of world class data scientists, engineers, machine learning practitioners to evaluate the safety of our driving behavior in a data-driven way
- Power the launch of the Waymo Driver in new environments (markets, vehicle platforms, and driving scopes) by designing and executing an evaluation plan
- Land features throughout simulation (such as synthetic data generation, sensor simulation and simulated agents) to increase signal and improve our ability to learn from simulation
- Work closely with Onboard developers who use our products to assess large model launches, to build sim & eval products that increase the quality and speed of launches
- Develop a scalable framework to evaluate our driving performance across multiple street types, geos, and hardware platforms
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
-1% employee growth in 12 months
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 HQ
Mountain View, CA
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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