Technical Program Manager

Summary

Join Waymo, a leading autonomous driving technology company, as a Technical Program Manager. You will play a crucial role in executing Waymo's roadmap, managing perception programs, evolving ML models for scalability, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. This position requires strong technical program management skills, experience managing complex programs, and the ability to navigate complex technical and operational challenges. You will report to a Director of Technical Program Management and work closely with various teams to deploy the Waymo Driver. The role offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including a discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and a generous company benefits program.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience managing highly complex cross-functional programs
• Technical judgment and ability to collaborate with engineering teams
• Break a problem down, be able to triage events to understand root causes
• Driving teams to meet schedule and feature complete target
• Flexibility and react well to change, including handling escalations and pivoting upon priority changes

Responsibilities

• Manage Perception programs, which accept sensor input to produce object detections for the Onboard software stack
• Evolve new ML models to scale the Waymo driver for multiple cities and platforms
• Demonstrate fundamental technical program management skills, including delivering features on milestones, managing risk, defining critical paths, and managing staffing requests
• Collaborate with technical and product leads to define timelines and roadmaps, and establish / improve onboard development workflows and processes
• Proactively identify and reduce business-critical risks and dependencies
• Keep stakeholders informed and aligned; represent programs to senior leadership and escalate when needed to remove blockers

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous background in Software Engineering
• Robotics, ML modeling, or Data Science experience – especially ML modeling
• Expertise in scaling processes within complex, growing areas

Benefits

• Discretionary annual bonus program
• Equity incentive plan
• Generous Company benefits program