Senior Staff Technical Lead Manager, Degraded Driving

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the 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 One, a fully autonomous ride-hailing service, and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over one million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving tens of millions of miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 13 U.S. states.

The Perception Team at Waymo builds the system that "sees" the world around the self-driving car. We conduct novel research to address real-world perception problems and collaborate with research teams at Alphabet. Here at Waymo, we have access to millions of miles of driving data from a diverse set of sensors, enabling researchers like you to develop complex models and techniques at scale. Improvements deployed to our system can immediately advance our large fleet of autonomous vehicles.

Within Perception, the Sensor Health team's job is to make sure that sensors "just work" for the entire self-driving car software stack. We make sure that all sensors are properly calibrated and consistently monitored at all times. We process data from next-generation sensors on next-generation vehicle platforms and work closely with both hardware and software teams to provide the best possible sensor data from our sensors to our upstream customers. To this end, we develop sensor data alignment and calibration algorithms, a growing sensor health backend, and deploy our systems both into the Waymo Driver and our log processing backend.

In this hybrid remote/in-office role, you will report to a Senior Staff TLM.

You Will

• Lead and build a team of ML engineers in charge of quick and efficient sensing anomaly detection.
• Shape a Waymo Driver that performs reliably even under difficult adverse sensing conditions.
• Drive and accelerate collaborations between perception, system engineering, evaluation, and Alphabet teams
  
  

You Have

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
• 8 years of experience in designing, training, and deploying ML-driven production systems
• 4 years of experience leading technical teams and setting technical directions
• 2 years of people management experience
  
  

We Prefer

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
• Experience in robotics, autonomous systems, or related automotive industries.
• Experience with various sensor modalities (e.g., LiDAR, radar, cameras) and their unique challenges.
• Familiarity with vision-based models and their development challenges
• Experience with rare instance or zero-shot detection problems
  
  

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

$281,000—$356,000 USD