Waymo
Staff Technical Lead Manager, Pullover Maneuvers
$251K–$310K
Mountain View, CA, USA +3 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 14, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA, USA
San Francisco, CA, USA
Mountain View, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 8+ years of software engineering experience; two or more years of management experience.
- Education
- PhD, Master's, or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or Robotics.
About the job
Leads engineering work to improve autonomous vehicle pullovers, including passenger pick-ups and drop-offs, parking, and deliveries.
What you'll do
- Design and implement horizontal solutions for driving behaviors across pick-up and drop-off scenarios.
- Build quantitative evaluation methods and foundational frameworks to improve the Waymo Driver.
- Collaborate across teams, mentor junior engineers, and help solve challenging driving situations.
What they ask for
- PhD, Master's, or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or Robotics.
- 8+ years of software engineering experience in complex systems.
- Evaluation experience, including scalable evaluation workflows, ML model metrics, and large-dataset analysis.
- High-quality API design, cross-component design experience, collaboration skills, and two or more years of management experience.
Nice to have
- Autonomous vehicle or robotics experience.
- Machine learning models in production systems; coding proficiency in C++, Python, and SQL.
Pay
$251,000–$310,000 USD base salary
Tools
C++, Python, SQL
AI focus
Evaluation workflows, metrics, and analysis for machine learning models; production ML experience is preferred.
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