Staff Technical Lead Manager, Pullover Maneuvers

RemoteRemoteFull TimeLead$251,000–$310,000 /yrPosted 1 month agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

PUDOs
pullovers
passenger pick-ups
drop-offs
parking
deliveries
advanced signals
Waymo Driver
long tail
complex vehicle behaviors

Nice to have

AV
Robotics
C++
Python
SQL

Role summary

Waymo is seeking a Technical Lead Manager for the Driver Refinement & Validation organization, focusing on perfecting autonomous vehicle maneuvers like pick-ups, drop-offs, and parking. This role involves designing and implementing solutions for complex driving behaviors, developing quantitative evaluation techniques, and providing mentorship to junior engineers. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software engineering, experience with ML model evaluation, API design, and cross-functional collaboration. Preferred qualifications include experience in AV or Robotics, ML in production, and proficiency in C++, Python, and SQL. This is a leadership role requiring management experience.

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. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.

Waymo is rapidly scaling its driving technology to new cities and geographies. A continual focus on operational efficiency, compliance, and safety is critical to this mission. The Driver Refinement & Validation organization builds the technology and tools to rapidly discover, iterate, and mitigate complex vehicle behaviors while scaling performance in a data-driven way.

The PUDOs (Pick-up/Drop-off) team is directly responsible for perfecting how our fully autonomous car executes pullovers—improving key driving scenarios like passenger pick-ups and drop-offs, parking, and deliveries. As we expand, our goal is to build the advanced signals and software necessary to seamlessly scale the Waymo Driver's performance across these critical real-world touchpoints in every new market.

In this role, you will report to a Technical Lead Manager.

You will:

Work closely with Technical Leads and Technical Lead Managers in the org to design and implement horizontal solutions to solve behavioral driving across PUDOs (pick up & drop off)

Build quantitative evaluation techniques of on-road performance to drive data-driven development

Work closely with partners across Product and the Onboard stack

Provide mentorship for junior engineers on the team

Develop foundational frameworks that help advancement of the Waymo Driver's capabilities

Directly contribute to solving some of the most challenging driving situations in the long tail

You have:

PhD, Masters, or Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics

8+ years of Software Engineering experience in complex systems

Evaluation experience, contributing to scalable eval workflows and building metrics for ML models and analyzing large datasets

High quality API design with an eye towards evaluation and data-driven techniques

Experience with working and solving design problems that span multiple components

Ability to collaborate within and across teams

Two or more years of management experience

We prefer:

AV or Robotics experience

Experience with Machine Learning models in production systems

Coding proficiency in C++, Python, and SQL

The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. 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.

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.

Salary Range$251,000—$310,000 USD

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Longest Substring with Two Distinct Characters Find the longest substring with at most two distinct characters. Input: s = "ccaabbb" Output: 5 Explanation: The substring "aabbb" contains exactly two distinct characters and has a maximum length of 5.
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Alien Dictionary Order Derive the alien dictionary order from a sorted list of alien words. Input: words = ["z","x","z"] Output: "" (Empty String) Explanation: The letter 'z' cannot come before 'x' and then suddenly after 'x', creating a cycle and making the dictionary invalid.
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Palindrome After Deleting One Character Determine if a string can be a palindrome after deleting at most one character. Input: s = "abc" Output: FALSE Explanation: Deleting any single character leaves either "ab", "bc", or "ac", none of which result in a valid palindrome.
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