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Waymo

Robot type
Autonomous Vehicle
Location
Mountain ViewCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Product
Posted
Aug 26, 2026
Salary
$241,000–$297,000 a year
Full-time

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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