Waymo · 2 weeks ago
Senior Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$196K/yr - $248K/yr
7+ years expWaymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. The Senior Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure will own and drive the execution for core infrastructure programs, manage the roadmap for simulation platforms, and work cross-functionally with various teams to ensure successful project delivery.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesSensorTransportation
Responsibilities
Own and drive the execution for core infrastructure programs
Manage the roadmap and delivery of high-availability simulation platforms, ensuring performance and scale for engineering development and testing
Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) and service level objectives (SLOs) for the core infrastructure services (e.g., data pipeline latency, storage reliability)
Work cross-functionally with Engineering, Product, and Data Science teams to manage dependencies
Proactively identify technical risks and bottlenecks in the data and simulation pipelines, proposing and driving mitigation strategies
Lead effective communication, including program reviews and status updates, to executive and cross-functional stakeholders
Qualification
Required
7+ years of experience in technical program management, particularly in a complex, multi-team environment within a software or infrastructure organization
Demonstrated knowledge of distributed systems, large-scale data management, and cloud infrastructure principles
Experience managing reliability programs in a rapidly scaling, high-availability environment (SRE or DevOps principles)
Proven ability to translate complex technical issues related to storage, simulation, or data pipelines for non-technical stakeholders
Experience with the software development lifecycle, specifically in environments that iterate rapidly on data-intensive products
Strong verbal and written communication skills, with a track record of driving alignment without direct authority
Preferred
Experience in the Autonomous Vehicle (AV) industry or other complex, real-time control systems
Prior experience as a software engineer in a domain related to data engineering, storage systems, or large-scale simulation
Familiarity with machine learning data workflows, including feature store management and model training/evaluation data sets
Experience with on-call rotations and triaging technical issues in a high-severity incident management process
Demonstrated ability to drive long-term strategy for an evolving technical domain
Benefits
Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program
Equity incentive plan
Generous Company benefits program
Company
Waymo
Waymo is a mobility technology company that improves transportation by developing self-driving solutions for travelers and daily commuters. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$11.1BKey Investors
Alphabet
2024-07-23Series C· $5.6B
2021-06-16Series B· $2.5B
2020-05-12Series A· $750M
Leadership Team
Tekedra Mawakana
Co-Chief Executive Officer
Elisa de Martel
Chief Financial Officer
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