Senior Product Manager, Autonomous Vehicle Reliability

Job Summary

The Product Manager for Reliability oversees the evaluation and mitigation of reliability issues in Waymo’s autonomous driving technology. This role requires a deep understanding of both hardware and software, as well as experience in analyzing large datasets and developing robust solutions.

About the Role

This role is part of Waymo’s Product Management Team, which focuses on bringing fully autonomous driving technology to market. The Product Manager for Reliability plays a crucial role in ensuring the reliability of the Waymo Driver across various platforms and environments.

Responsibilities

• Set the roadmap for evaluating the reliability of the Waymo Driver, including how, when, and where failures occur and their impact.
• Develop and implement strategies to minimize reliability failures and mitigate issues in the field.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and test new hardware platforms, geographic launches, and new operational domains (ODDs).
• Think about long-term product vision and break it down into actionable plans with cross-organizational alignment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical or engineering field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of 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.
• A deep understanding of driving, vehicles, and the rules of the road.
• Ability to think about long-term product vision and decompose it into concrete, actionable plans with cross-organization alignment.

Preferred

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

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical or engineering field, or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits

Waymo offers a comprehensive benefits package including a discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.

Pay

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.

Schedule

This role follows a hybrid work schedule.