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Waymo

Robot type
Autonomous Vehicle
Location
Mountain ViewCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Artificial Intelligence
Posted
Jan 26, 2026
Salary
$251,000–$310,000 a year
Full-time

Technical Lead Manager, Perception, Traffic Control Understanding

Job description

As a TLM for Scene Understanding, you will act as a true "player-coach" for a team of roughly 6-10 engineers. This is a high impact role, where your models will directly dictate how the Waymo Driver reacts to complex, unstructured environments like active construction zones and temporary traffic signs. This work is critical to Waymo's ability to scale into new cities, across the US and internationally.

In this hybrid role you will report to a Sr Staff Technical Lead Manager.

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…

Job responsibilities

  • Own a specific domain within scene understanding, such as traffic controls or construction zones, and work with product and safety partners on short- and long-term improvements in support of Waymo’s scaling goals
  • Lead the analysis of real-world scene understanding issues to develop technical roadmaps and drive the roadmap execution,
  • Build resilient and high performing teams through people development and hiring,
  • Make project staffing decisions, technical decisions, drive escalations; ultimately accountable for delivering projects.

Job requirements

  • Bachelors in Computer Science or a similar discipline, or an equivalent amount of deep learning experience
  • 7+ years of experience building and deploying deep learning/computer vision models in production environments, ideally within the AV or robotics space
  • 2-3+ years of experience directly managing and scaling engineering/research teams (managing 5+ reports)
  • Fluency in Python, C++, and deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, JAX)
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