Technical Lead Manager, Simulation
Waymo
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.
As a Technical Lead / Manager in the Driver Understanding and Evaluation Experience team, you will lead our Assessment Tooling team. This team develops the user-facing tools and infrastructure that are used internally to understand the Waymo Driver’s performance. These web-based applications help to smooth the build, evaluate, launch workflow and are used by every part of Waymo, including SWEs, PMs, Data Scientists, Ops, and Research. They are a core part of solving almost every self-driving challenge that Waymo faces.
You will lead a team of Software Engineers and collaborate with users, Product Managers, and our UX team to build products that improve Waymo’s engineering capabilities around our toughest self-driving challenges.
In this hybrid role, you will report to a Senior Engineering Manager.
You will:
- Manage a team to deliver tooling to facilitate human evaluation of driving events
- Build quarterly and annual technical roadmaps that meet product requirements and manage work on the team towards those goals.
- Collaborate across departments and align execution to meet product goals
- Partner with technical leads, product managers and program managers to lead execution on broad efforts
- Lead proactive risk management efforts and contingency plans across the program landscape to achieve the program
- Set up and sustain mechanisms that promote organizational efficiencie.s, and improve speed of decision-making and execution
You have:
- 10+ year of experience leading engineering teams of 5-15 people, delivering on both short-term goals and long-term strategic plans.
- Leverage technical expertise to communicate with engineering leads, assessing technical trade-offs and their impacts on project scope, risk, and timelines
- 10+ years of experience developing, and deploying internal tools that improve engineering efficiency or productivity.
- 10+ years of experience in full-stack Web development, comfortable with both front-end and back-end
- 10+ years of experience managing engineers, including conducting performance reviews, promoting career development, and facilitating collaboration.
- BS in Computer Science or related field
We prefer:
- Advanced degree (MS or Ph.D.) in Computer Science or a related field and 10+ years of software engineering experience
- Familiarity with human-computer interaction (HCI) principles and experience crowdsourcing platforms or human-in-the-loop systems
- Proficiency in C++
- Proficiency in TypeScript
- Experience leading geographically distributed engineering teams
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.
