- Robot type
- Autonomous Vehicle
- Location
- Mountain ViewCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Product
- Posted
- Aug 26, 2026
- Salary
- $241,000–$297,000 a year
Senior Product Manager, Autonomous Vehicle Reliability
Job description
This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to a Director of Product.
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.
Waymo’s Product Management Team is a mission-driven team responsible for writing and enacting first-of-their-kind playbooks to…
Job responsibilities
- As Waymo expands to more freeways, on more platforms, in more regions, in more weather, understanding vehicle reliability becomes critical to ensuring we have a high quality and safe product.
- You will set the roadmap for how we evaluate the reliability of the Waymo driver: measure how, when and where the hardware or software fails and what happens as a result.
- Be responsible for the onboard solutions,hardware changes, and testing strategies to minimize reliability failures, and mitigate issues in the field.
- Look to the future at new hardware platforms, new geographic launches and new ODDs, and build the systems and tools to ensure we have a reliable vehicle as we grow.
Job requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical or engineering field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years experience working on AV, Robotics, or products that utilize Machine Learning or AI.
- Experience in analytical roles or AI / ML roles, interacting with data scientists, and a solid statistics foundation,
- Experience working at the intersection of hardware and software.
- A deep understanding of driving, vehicles and rules of the road.
- Ability to think about long-term product vision, and then decompose that into concrete, actionable plans with cross-org alignment.
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