Technical Lead Manager, Perception, Vehicle Understanding

Job Summary

The Semantics Understanding team at Waymo is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead a team responsible for a key production area to scale Waymo's business. This role involves developing strong collaborative relationships with upstream and downstream teams, exercising technical leadership, and managing a team of diverse skills including engineering, modeling, ML infrastructure.

About the Role

You will drive immediate impact and the 0-to-1 changes that push boundaries of the Waymo Driver’s generalizability. This role is critical to Waymo’s domestic/international expansion and reports to our Senior Staff TLM of Semantics Understanding.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team responsible for a key production area to scale Waymo's business
• Develop a strong collaborative relationship with upstream and downstream teams to facilitate the end-to-end solutions for the corresponding product domains
• Exercise technical leadership by pushing the boundaries of onboard/offboard generalizability, e.g., by leveraging onboard/offboard multi-modal foundational models, large-scale 3rd party data, and partner teams in Research, Oracles, and Simulation
• Manage a team (~10) with diverse skills including engineering, modeling, ML infrastructure, of senior and junior SWEs, foster an inclusive culture for sustained team growth, and hiring world-class talents
• Collaborate with Platform/Infra partners to optimize the team’s key pipelines (e.g., data, training, evaluation, onboard) for high performance, efficiency, and reliability
• Develop the execution strategies that balance short-term and long-term priorities. Drive process and clarify R&Rs for cross-organizational alignments

Requirements

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Machine Learning or related disciplines with 7+ years of experience in deep learning systems, specifically in computer vision, or multi-modal perception
• 3+ years of experience managing medium-sized (10+ people) production teams in complex, fast-paced environments with a track record in developing team culture and growing people
• Experience in collaborating with technical, research and business stakeholders to drive impactful solutions

Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning or related disciplines
• Publishations in top CV conferences (NeurIPS, CVPR, ICCV, etc.)

Skills

• Experience in the autonomous vehicles industry

Benefits

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.

Pay

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.

Schedule

This role is hybrid.