Role at a glance
- Job function
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Product, Strategy & Operations Product Management & Product Ownership
- Salary
- Not Disclosed
- Location
- Mountain View, California, United States San Francisco, California, United States
- Work arrangement
- Hybrid
- Employment
- Full-time
- Experience
- Senior Level
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical or engineering field, or equivalent practical experience.
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Role Summary
The Senior Product Manager will lead product work focused on evaluating and improving the reliability of the Waymo Driver as it expands across platforms, regions, and operating conditions. The role follows a hybrid schedule and reports to a Director of Product.
What You'll Do
- Set the roadmap for evaluating vehicle reliability, including measuring how, when, and where hardware or software fails and the...
- Own onboard solutions, hardware changes, and testing strategies to reduce reliability failures and mitigate issues in the field.
- Build systems and tools to support vehicle reliability as new hardware platforms, geographic launches, and operational design domains...
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View full postingQualifications
Requires a bachelor’s degree in a technical or engineering field, or equivalent practical experience; 10+ years working on AV, robotics, or products using machine learning or AI; experience in analytical or AI/ML roles, interacting with data scientists, and a solid statistics foundation; experience at the intersection of hardware and software; deep understanding of driving, vehicles, and road rules; and ability to develop long-term product vision into actionable plans with cross-organizational alignment.
Preferred
- Experience evaluating AVs, large foundational model training/evaluation pipelines, or evaluation/experimentation platforms for large...
- Experience with system reliability of large fleets, servers, hardware deployments, or data centers.
- Understanding of hardware in an autonomous vehicle stack, system reliability decomposition, and system performance evaluation.
- Master's degree in a technical or engineering field, or equivalent practical experience.
Original job description
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Original job description
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Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.
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.
This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to a Director of Product.
You will:
- As Waymo expands to more freeways, on more platforms, in more regions, in more weather, understanding vehicle reliability becomes critical to ensuring we have a high quality and safe product.
- You will set the roadmap for how we evaluate the reliability of the Waymo driver: measure how, when and where the hardware or software fails and what happens as a result.
- Be responsible for the onboard solutions,hardware changes, and testing strategies to minimize reliability failures, and mitigate issues in the field.
- Look to the future at new hardware platforms, new geographic launches and new ODDs, and build the systems and tools to ensure we have a reliable vehicle as we grow.
You have:
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical or engineering field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years experience working on AV, Robotics, or products that utilize Machine Learning or AI.
- Experience in analytical roles or AI / ML roles, interacting with data scientists, and a solid statistics foundation,
- Experience working at the intersection of hardware and software.
- A deep understanding of driving, vehicles and rules of the road.
- Ability to think about long-term product vision, and then decompose that into concrete, actionable plans with cross-org alignment.
We prefer:
- Experience with Evaluation of AVs, Large Foundational Model training / evaluation pipelines or the evaluation / experimentation platforms for large production systems (Ads, Search, Ranking, etc..).
- Experience working on system reliability of large fleets, servers, hardware deployments, data centers.
- An understanding of the hardware pieces that go into an autonomous vehicle stack, decomposition of system reliability and experience evaluating system performance,
- Master's degree in a technical or engineering field, or equivalent practical experience.
The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process.
Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.
About the company
Waymo
Large Enterprise
Waymo is a leading autonomous driving technology company, originally a part of Google's parent company Alphabet Inc. Established in 2009, Waymo focuses on developing self-driving cars and innovative transportation solutions designed to enhance mobility and safety on the roads. By employing advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms, the company aims to revolutionize personal and shared transportation, making it more accessible and efficient. Waymo's efforts contribute significantly to the future of autonomous vehicles and the ongoing shift towards smart transportation systems.