Technical Lead Manager, Planner
Waymo · Mountain View, CA | New York City, NY · Planner (7LU)
About this role
Waymo is hiring a senior-level Technical Program Manager in the software engineering function based in Mountain View, CA | New York City, NY (hybrid). The posting calls out experience with Python, Machine Learning, A/B Testing and roughly 8+ years of relevant work. Listed education preference: a master's degree or equivalent. Compensation is listed at $238,000–$302,000 per year.
- Role
- Technical Program Manager
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- senior
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Mountain View, CA | New York City, NY
- Work mode
- Hybrid
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Education
- Master's degree
- Department
- Planner (7LU)
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Job description
from Waymo careersWaymo 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.
Our team maintains and improves a high impact system that is a critical part of Waymo's Planner. You will work at the intersection of robotics and modern ML, collaborating across our teams, to build solutions that can handle situations from everyday driving to ones that happen once in a million miles.
In this hybrid role, you will report to an Engineering Manager within Planner.
You will:
- Own and improve the onboard ML model for trajectory scoring and ranking.
- Management of a team of MLEs focused on model quality improvements