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Waymo

Robot type
Autonomous Vehicle
Location
Mountain ViewCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Business Operations
Posted
Sep 14, 2026
Salary
$251,000–$310,000 a year
Full-time

Technical Lead Manager, Pullover Maneuvers

Job description

The PUDOs (Pick-up/Drop-off) team is directly responsible for perfecting how our fully autonomous car executes pullovers—improving key driving scenarios like passenger pick-ups and drop-offs, parking, and deliveries. As we expand, our goal is to build the advanced signals and software necessary to seamlessly scale the Waymo Driver's performance across these critical real-world touchpoints in every new market.

In this role, you will report to a 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 World's…

Job responsibilities

  • Work closely with Technical Leads and Technical Lead Managers in the org to design and implement horizontal solutions to solve behavioral driving across PUDOs (pick up & drop off)
  • Build quantitative evaluation techniques of on-road performance to drive data-driven development
  • Work closely with partners across Product and the Onboard stack
  • Provide mentorship for junior engineers on the team
  • Develop foundational frameworks that help advancement of the Waymo Driver's capabilities
  • Directly contribute to solving some of the most challenging driving situations in the long tail

Job requirements

  • PhD, Masters, or Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics
  • 8+ years of Software Engineering experience in complex systems
  • Evaluation experience, contributing to scalable eval workflows and building metrics for ML models and analyzing large datasets
  • High quality API design with an eye towards evaluation and data-driven techniques
  • Experience with working and solving design problems that span multiple components
  • Ability to collaborate within and across teams
  • Two or more years of management experience
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