Staff Technical Program Manager, Onboard Infrastructure Platforms

Waymo • Mountain View, CA

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

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 Technical Program Managers are accountable for Waymo’s roadmap execution by providing thoughtful cross-functional planning, clarity, and proactive risk management. In the face of complex technical and operational challenges with no established playbooks to follow, we act with thoughtful urgency, driving conversations, discussions, and outcomes. Our team partners closely with every function of Waymo to structure, own and drive work towards real-world deployments of the Waymo Driver across platforms and geographies. This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports and you will report to a Manager of Technical Program Management.

Requirements

• 8+ years of infrastructure related experience
• STEM background
• Large scale program management experience (multiple projects, multiple stakeholders, large teams, complex team setup)
• Computer science background
• Experience with machine learning

Nice To Haves

• Experience as a professional software developer within a large-scale corporate environment
• PhD or advanced technology degree
• Prior experience with autonomous driving
• Prior experience with software simulation tools
• Experience collaborating with global, distributed teams across multiple geographic locations

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with primary Onboard Systems Infrastructure partners (Product Managers and Engineering) to lead and manage the execution of Waymo's comprehensive Onboard Systems Infrastructure
• Keep track of progress on helping teams manage and improve the capabilities, efficiency, usability, scalability, and performance of Onboard System Infrastructure
• Align programs on core goals amidst ambiguity, supporting a wide range of capabilities while simultaneously managing cross-functional programs
• Prioritize decisions that benefit the Onboard Systems Infrastructure as a whole over optimizing for specific organizations
• Manage without direct authority, maintaining clear upward, outward, and downward alignment across program communications

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed