Waymo

Senior Product Manager, Autonomous Vehicle Reliability

Waymo$241K — $297K *
Transportation
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a technical or engineering field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10+ years in Autonomous Vehicles (AV), Robotics, or Machine Learning (ML) products.
  • Prior experience in analytical or AI/ML roles, with a strong statistics background.
  • Experience at the intersection of hardware and software.
  • Deep knowledge of driving and traffic laws.

Responsibilities

  • Develop a roadmap for evaluating the reliability of Waymo's driver technology.
  • Measure and analyze hardware and software failures and their impacts.
  • Oversee onboard solutions and testing strategies to reduce reliability issues.
  • Plan for future hardware platforms and geographic expansions for reliable vehicle performance.
  • Build systems and tools to support operational reliability as the company scales.

Benefits

  • Participation in a discretionary annual bonus program.
  • Equity incentive plan available for employees.
  • Comprehensive Company benefits program with eligibility requirements.
Full Job Description
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.

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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