Technical Lead Manager, Pullover Manuevers

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 DriverTM—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