Senior Product Manager, Autonomous Vehicle Reliability

Job Summary

The Product Management Team at Waymo is seeking a Reliability Engineer to set the roadmap for evaluating the reliability of the Waymo Driver. This role involves overseeing onboard solutions, hardware changes, and testing strategies to minimize reliability failures and mitigate issues in the field. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in technical fields, experience with large foundational model training, and a deep understanding of driving and vehicles.

Responsibilities

• Set the roadmap for evaluating the reliability of the Waymo Driver
• Measure how, when, and where the hardware or software fails and what happens as a result
• Develop and implement onboard solutions, hardware changes, and testing strategies to minimize reliability failures
• Mitigate issues in the field through strategic planning and execution
• Think about long-term product vision and break it down into actionable plans with cross-org alignment
• Work on system reliability of large fleets, servers, hardware deployments, and data centers
• Evaluate system performance and understand the hardware pieces that go into an autonomous vehicle stack
• Build systems and tools to ensure a reliable vehicle as Waymo grows

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical or engineering field, or equivalent practical experience
• 10+ years experience working on AV, Robotics, or products utilizing Machine Learning or AI
• Experience in analytical roles or AI/ML roles, interacting with data scientists, and a solid statistics foundation
• Experience working at the intersection of hardware and software
• A deep understanding of driving, vehicles, and rules of the road
• Ability to think about long-term product vision and decompose it into concrete, actionable plans with cross-org alignment

Preferred

• Experience with evaluation of AVs, large foundational model training/evaluation pipelines, or the evaluation/experimentation platforms for large production systems (Ads, Search, Ranking, etc.)
• Experience working on system reliability of large fleets, servers, hardware deployments, and data centers
• An understanding of the hardware pieces that go into an autonomous vehicle stack, decomposition of system reliability, and experience evaluating system performance

About the Role

This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to a Director of Product. 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. Waymo’s Product Management Team is a mission-driven team responsible for writing and enacting first-of-their-kind playbooks to bring fully autonomous driving technology to market.

Benefits

Waymo offers a comprehensive benefits program including a discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is $241,000—$297,000 USD. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level.