Waymo
Technical Lead Manager, Multiverse
$238K–$302K
Mountain View, CA, USA +1 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Jan 14, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA, USA
Mountain View, California, United States - Experience
- 7+ years of full-time software engineering experience, or a quantitative PhD with 2+ years of professional software engineering experience; preferred: 10+ years of industry experience, including 2+ in a quantitative- or quality-focused engineering role.
- Education
- Preferred: B.S. in Computer Science.
About the job
Lead the Event Insights sub-team building systems to enrich, cluster, store, orchestrate, and visualize low-latency metric events from real-world and simulated autonomous driving.
What you'll do
- Lead development of dynamic event clustering for rapid understanding of emerging issues.
- Own scalable event storage and APIs, including updates from human triage or VLMs.
- Coordinate reliable, low-latency interactions with downstream systems and partner UI teams to deliver event insights.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of full-time software engineering experience, or a quantitative PhD with 2+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- C++ proficiency; Python and SQL familiarity.
- Management experience with a team size of 5+.
- Hands-on technical leadership of ICs, including knowledge of the codebase, eval and data pipelines, models, and algorithms.
Nice to have
- 10+ years of industry experience, including 2+ years in a quantitative- or quality-focused engineering role with technical-lead experience.
- B.S. in Computer Science; experience with large FAANG-scale distributed systems or software reliability evaluation systems.
Pay
$238,000 — $302,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
C++, Python, SQL, VLM
AI focus
Coordinate low-latency VLM inference and use VLM-produced labels to update metric events.
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