Senior Staff TLM, Waymo Commercialization Engineering

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the 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 One, a fully autonomous ride-hailing service, and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over one million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving tens of millions of miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 13+ U.S. states.

Waymo’s Commercialization Engineering team builds the next generation of infrastructure for driverless cars. We solve hard, real-world problems such as demand planning, pickup / dropoff optimization, fleet optimization, field escalation handling, and more - cross-cutting problems that require cross-team collaboration, both technically (mobile app, cloud backends, and the Waymo Driver) and functionally (operations, product, legal, partnerships, policy & privacy) to develop and deliver business critical infrastructure. If you’re a self-directed, product-minded engineer who’s curious and passionate about the potential of autonomous cars, we’d like to meet you.

We are looking for a Senior Staff TLM to help build something that has never been built before - automated, optimized fleet management for autonomous vehicles at scale. In this role you would be reporting to our TLM for Fleet Infrastructure.

 

In this role, you’ll:

• Manage a team of 8+ SWEs within Commercialization Engineering
• Drive the short term roadmap and long term technical vision of the team
• Collaborate with Operations, Product, Data Science, and other engineering teams to develop systems and processes as business needs grow and evolve
• Navigate uncertainty, solving large, open-ended problems

 

At a minimum we’d like you to have:

• 3+ years of experience managing teams in complex, fast growth environments
• 8+ years of software development experience
• Experience working with backend tech / distributed systems (e.g. C++, Spanner)
• Execution mindset and skills in a fast paced environment

 

It’s great if you have experience with:

• Leading an organization through a time of technical or product change; experience in a startup environment
• Working in cross functional environments that include nontechnical stakeholders
• Google infrastructure (e.g. Flume, Borg, Protocol Buffers)
• One or more of the following domains: logistics, operations tooling, ride hailing / delivery
• Optimization, operations research, or relevant ML-based approaches

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$272,000—$346,000 USD