Product Manager, Sensing Resilience

Waymo’s Product Management Team is a mission-driven team responsible for writing and enacting first-of-their-kind playbooks to bring fully autonomous driving technology to market. Our team develops simple solutions for complex problems by orchestrating cross-functional efforts to safely drive Waymo’s technology and the products it enables forward. We do this by understanding the customer, the business, and the technology. We are humble about the scope of our work, collaborative in our approach to problem-solving, and ambitious about our vision for the future. 

This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to a Group Product Manager.

You will:

• Define and lead the roadmap for Sensing Resilience, covering calibration scalability, multi-platform sensing validation, fault recovery, and safe driving with degraded systems
• Deeply understand Waymo’s longer-term roadmap to surface and drive longer-term needs that impact Waymo’s business, product, and safety goals
• Work closely with multiple partner teams, including Product, Perception, Hardware, Systems Engineering, Simulation/Eval, and Operations to develop creative and effective solutions to meet product goals
• Collaborate with multiple major cross-functional teams, including Freeways, Weather, and New Platforms

You have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Computer Science
• 4+ years of Product Management experience
• Experience developing and shipping products with a major sensing/perception component using cameras, LiDAR, or RADAR
• Ability to translate company-level goals to team-level outcomes and build a cross-functional product roadmap to meet those outcomes
• Strong sense of accountability and ownership

We prefer:

• Advanced degree in engineering or business (MS, MBA)
• 6+ years of Product Management experience
• Experience working in the mobile robotics industry (automated/autonomous vehicles, humanoid, etc.) 
• Experience in shipping features or products that leverage large ML/AI models

Travel:

• Up to 5% travel. Potential 1-2 Times per year, but not required.