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Senior Product Manager, Perception Object Generation
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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. About the role
Waymo's Product Management Team is a mission-driven team responsible for writing and enacting first-of-their-kind playbooks to bring fully autonomous driving technology to market. Our team develops simple solutions for complex problems by orchestrating cross-functional efforts to safely drive Waymo's technology and the products it enables forward. We do this by understanding the customer, the business, and the technology. We are humble about the scope of our work, collaborative in our approach to problem-solving, and ambitious about our vision for the future.
This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to a Senior Product Manager. You Will
Act as an approver for model launches, understanding and negotiating between trade offs, regressions, and improvements across all of a model's surface area
Plan for future investments into model capabilities on a 12+ month timeline by understanding the limitations of the current model architecture and the immediate needs of our Ride Hailing business
Set the vision for our Object Generation model architecture on a 12-36 month timeline by understanding the overall needs of Waymo and the current State of the Art ML/AI research
Manage the execution of upcoming milestones by working directly with a group of 20+ engineers, Technical Program Managers, and other Product Managers
Conduct root cause analysis and conferring with partners in Engineering to propose viable solutions by examining AV behavior from a mix of real world, synthetic, and simulated events You Have
5 years PM experience
Experience iterating on models over the course of 12+ months
Experience in launching new model architectures, model consolidation, or Foundational Model distillation
Experience optimizing models for compute efficiency
Technical fluency in Perception or related field We Prefer
7 years PM experience
Master's Degree in Engineering or previous experience working as an Engineer
Experience working with Perception models
Experience training and releasing Large Foundational Models, especially Gemini Salary Range
$238,000-$302,000 USD
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.

About the Company

On the journey to be the world's most trusted driver. With the Waymo Driver, we can improve mobility while saving thousands of lives. Download the Waymo One app and ride today. Waymo reaches out to candidates from official channels only (e.g. directly from @waymo.com email addresses, or through our recruiters or sourcers who are noted as such on LinkedIn). We do not contact candidates about career opportunities through instant messaging apps like Telegram, email addresses from domains other than waymo.com (such as Gmail add... Know more