Technical Lead Manager, Pullover Manuevers
Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA
About this role
**Waymo — Technical Lead Manager, Pullover Maneuvers** Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world’s most trusted driver. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Driver Refinement & Validation organization builds the technology and tools to rapidly discover, iterate, and mitigate complex vehicle behaviors while scaling performance in a data-driven way. The PUDOs (Pick-up/Drop-off) team perfects how our fully autonomous car executes pullovers—improving key driving scenarios like passenger pick-ups and drop-offs, parking, and deliveries. As we expand, the goal is to build the advanced signals and software necessary to seamlessly scale the Waymo Driver’s performance across these critical real-world touchpoints in every new market. In this role, you will report to a Technical Lead Manager. **You will:** - Work closely with Technical Leads and Technical Lead Managers to design and implement horizontal solutions to solve behavioral driving across PUDOs (pick up & drop off) - Build quantitative evaluation techniques of on-road performance to drive data-driven development - Work closely with partners across Product and the Onboard stack - Provide mentorship for junior engineers on the team - Develop foundational frameworks that help advance the Waymo Driver’s capabilities - Directly contribute to solving some of the most challenging driving situations in the long tail **You have:** - PhD, Masters, or Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics - 8+ years of Software Engineering experience in complex systems - Evaluation experience, contributing to scalable eval workflows and building metrics for ML models and analyzing large datasets - High quality API design with an eye towards evaluation and data-driven techniques - Experience working and solving design problems that span multiple components - Ability to collaborate within and across teams - Two or more years of management experience **We prefer:** - AV or Robotics experience - Experience with Machine Learning models in production systems - Coding proficiency in C++, Python, and SQL **Compensation (US):** $251,000 — $310,000 USD (base salary range). Waymo employees may also be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus, equity incentive plan, and benefits (subject to eligibility).
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