Group Product Manager, Waymo
Simulation Evaluation
$272-346k
Eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program and equity incentive plan
Autonomous driving technology
Be an early applicant
Autonomous driving technology
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$272-346k
Eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program and 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
- 3+ years of managing a Product team
- Background in an engineering discipline, either hardware or software, could be undergrad degree or work equivalent
- Business experience could be one or more of: (1) startup founder, (2) successful sales or sales engineering work, or (3) management consulting or finance
- Strong analytical and presentation skills, including data analysis and telling compelling stories w/ data
Desirable
- Quantitative analysis background
- Familiarity with Machine Learning
- Experience in robotics or autonomous vehicles specifically
- Experience with simulation
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
- This role is on the Simulation Evaluation Team reporting to our Director, Product Management for Simulation, Evaluation, and Safety
- Our mission is to provide a universally useful and trusted platform for self-driving car evaluation, hillclimbing, and model training that’s powered by the world’s easiest to use, most reliable, most realistic, and fastest simulator
- Manage a team. You’ll be responsible for the strategy, team goals, and developing your team as we drive short term and long term technical vision of the organization
- Evolve the Release Process and Safety Framework. We are constantly improving how we release software with an eye always towards safety. You’ll be responsible for the evolution of the safety framework and release process, improvements to our eval methodologies supporting that process, and understanding needed modifications for new driving contexts and scope
- Contribute to accelerating market expansion. How do we enable a step change reduction in the cost and time to enter new markets? What new sim capabilities are required?
- Build our Simulator evaluation capabilities. How do we evaluate a simulator for AVs, especially how well it predicts real world self-driving car performance. How do we validate that the simulator supports new scopes?
- Realistic vehicle simulation. How do we ensure that autonomous cars in simulation behave just like they do in the real world, all the good and the bad
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.
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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
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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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