Waymo

Product Manager, Sensing Resilience

Waymo$241K — $297K *
Transportation
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Computer Science
  • 4+ years of Product Management experience
  • Experience developing and shipping products with major sensing/perception components
  • Ability to align company goals with team outcomes
  • Strong sense of accountability and ownership

Responsibilities

  • Define and lead the roadmap for Sensing Resilience
  • Understand Waymo's long-term goals to influence product direction
  • Work closely with partner teams to create effective solutions
  • Collaborate across cross-functional teams including Freeways and Weather

Benefits

  • Eligibility for annual bonus program
  • Participation in equity incentive plan
  • Access to a comprehensive benefits program
  • Hybrid work schedule with potential for remote work
  • Low travel requirement, only up to 5%
Full Job Description
This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to a Group Product Manager.

You will:
  • Define and lead the roadmap for Sensing Resilience, covering calibration scalability, multi-platform sensing validation, fault recovery, and safe driving with degraded systems
  • Deeply understand Waymo's longer-term roadmap to surface and drive longer-term needs that impact Waymo's business, product, and safety goals
  • Work closely with multiple partner teams, including Product, Perception, Hardware, Systems Engineering, Simulation/Eval, and Operations to develop creative and effective solutions to meet product goals
  • Collaborate with multiple major cross-functional teams, including Freeways, Weather, and New Platforms

You have:
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Computer Science
  • 4+ years of Product Management experience
  • Experience developing and shipping products with a major sensing/perception component using cameras, LiDAR, or RADAR
  • Ability to translate company-level goals to team-level outcomes and build a cross-functional product roadmap to meet those outcomes
  • Strong sense of accountability and ownership

We prefer:
  • Advanced degree in engineering or business (MS, MBA)
  • 6+ years of Product Management experience
  • Experience working in the mobile robotics industry (automated/autonomous vehicles, humanoid, etc.)
  • Experience in shipping features or products that leverage large ML/AI models

Travel:
  • Up to 5% travel. Potential 1-2 Times per year, but not required.


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.

Salary Range

$241,000-$297,000 USD

About Waymo

Waymo LLC is a self-driving technology development company. It is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google. Waymo develops autonomous driving technology and provides ride-hailing services through its Waymo One program. The company has been testing its self-driving technology on public roads since 2009 and has logged millions of miles of autonomous driving. Waymo has partnerships with several automakers and has been working on developing autonomous trucks for use in logistics.
Learn more about Waymo
Size
2,000 employees
Industry
Founded
2009

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