The opportunity
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…
What you'll do
Act as an approver for model launches, understanding and negotiating between: tradeoffs, regressions, and improvements across all of a model’s surface area
Plan for future investments into model capabilities on a 12+ month timeline: by understanding the limitations of the current model architecture and the immediate needs of our RIdehailing business
Set the vision for model architecture on a 12-36 month timeline by: understanding the overall needs of Waymo and the current State of the Art ML/AI research, focused on Object-level Semantic understanding + reasoning
Manage the execution of upcoming milestones by working directly with a group: of 60+ engineers, Technical Program Managers, and other Product Managers
Conduct root cause analysis and conferring with partners in Engineering to: propose viable solutions by examining AV behavior from a mix of real world, synthetic, and simulated events
years Product Management experience
What they're looking for
- Experience iterating on models over the course of 12+ months
- Experience in launching new model architectures, model consolidation, or Foundational Model distillation
- Experience optimizing models for compute efficiency
- Technical fluency in Perception or related field
