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About the Role
The team ensures safety and service quality evaluation across new cities and countries. This role requires an experienced, technically hands-on engineering manager with strong quantitative skills to lead a small team and partner to scale evaluation and ML development by exploring new methods and delivering tools for mining and sampling data. This is a hybrid role reporting to a Senior Staff manager.
Responsibilities
- Develop tools for mining novel safety-impacting situations from driving logs for evaluation and ML datasets, using ML and structured data.
- Apply advanced sampling techniques and tune simulations to derive strong signals for metrics and models from datasets.
- Build automation for the mining and sampling ecosystem to enable rapid scaling to new cities.
- Make hands-on technical contributions to engineering and data science projects.
- Provide strong management and technical leadership for a small team of data science-friendly engineers.
- Partner with leads and teams across Waymo (product, engineering, data science, frontend, backend) to determine and execute strategy.
Requirements
- Experience managing teams of up to 8 people.
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Robotics, Statistics, Physics, Math, or other quantitative area.
- 7+ years of industry experience.
Skills
- Strong engineering design and programming skills.
- Strong data fluency and analysis skills.
- Familiarity with statistical methods including hypothesis testing, experiment design, and sampling.
- Familiarity with foundational and contemporary ML concepts and practices.
- C++, SQL, and Python experience.
- Navigating and modifying a large code base containing C++, SQL, and Python.
- Building data processing pipelines.
- Eval experience, such as building and validating metrics to measure quality in complex systems.
- Strong statistical background (MSc-level stats or similar expertise from work experience).
- Strong ML background (MSc-level ML or similar expertise from work experience).
- Experience working in the AV industry and/or with simulations.
Location
- US locations
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Experienced
- 7+ years of industry experience
- Experience managing teams of up to 8 people
Education Level
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Robotics, Statistics, Physics, Math, or other quantitative area
- MSc-level stats or similar expertise from work experience
- MSc-level ML or similar expertise from work experience
Salary/Compensations
- $281,000—$356,000 USD
Benefits
- Discretionary annual bonus program
- Equity incentive plan
- Generous Company benefits program
About the Company
- Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver.
- Started as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009.
- Focuses on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility and save lives.
- The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can be applied to various vehicle platforms and product use cases.
- The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips.
- Enabled by autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.