Waymo
Staff Technical Lead Manager, Scenes
$251K–$310K
Mountain View, CA, USA +3 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Apr 21, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA, USA
San Francisco, CA, USA
Mountain View, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States - Education
- PhD, Masters or Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a related field
About the job
Develop horizontal software solutions and quantitative evaluation methods to improve autonomous driving behavior as Waymo expands into new service areas.
What you'll do
- Design and implement solutions for behavioral driving issues in new cities with organizational leads and technical managers.
- Build quantitative evaluation techniques to support data-driven development.
- Work with partners in Mapping, Product, and the Onboard stack.
What they ask for
- Degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a related field (PhD, Master’s, or Bachelor’s).
- Experience manipulating and analyzing large datasets.
- Experience solving design problems across multiple components.
- High-quality API design with an eye toward evaluation and data-driven techniques.
Nice to have
- Autonomous driving experience, including motion planning or perception.
- Proficiency in SQL or C++; evaluation experience building scalable workflows and ML model metrics.
Pay
$251,000 — $310,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
SQL, C++
AI focus
The role supports autonomous driving behavior and data-driven evaluation; preferred work includes evaluation workflows and metrics for ML models.
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