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Senior Staff Technical Lead Manager, In-Car Experience

Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA · Mountain View (US-MTV-EMF680)

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Roboticsonsitesenior staff$298k–$368k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Lead development of entire in-car experience for fully autonomous ride-hail service.
  • Shape pickups, drop-offs, infotainment and 3D car view for riders.
  • Build phone-to-vehicle experiences solving novel AV interaction problems.

What they offer

  • Discretionary annual bonus program
  • Equity incentive plan
  • Generous Company benefits program

Ideal candidate

A senior engineering leader who thrives owning complex, rider-facing experiences end-to-end and mentoring managers. You care about craft, reliability, and aligning product, design and hardware into a cohesive autonomous ride.

Requirements

  • Management experience with total team size over 25 with multiple sub-teams
  • Managed multiple TLMs, each with team size of 6-8
  • Proven experience as technical lead setting strategic direction for complex multi-team domains
  • Experience working with Android/AOSP building platform features and frameworks
  • Deep expertise spanning Android OS internals, C++ native layers, Kotlin, Jetpack Compose and backend systems
  • Strong system design skills decoupling monoliths and optimizing resource-constrained environments
  • Exceptional communication and cross-functional leadership across Product, UX, Systems and Hardware
  • AI-native mindset with track record deploying agent systems to improve velocity

Lab profile

About Waymo

Autonomous driving technology company building the Waymo Driver for fully autonomous ride-hailing.

What they build

  • Waymo Driver
  • Fully autonomous ride-hail service

Known for

  • Large-scale driving simulation
  • Simulation realism
  • Quantitative evaluations
  • Onboard autonomy models

Key facts

  • Founded in 2009
  • Started as the Google Self-Driving Car Project
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