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Waymo · 22 hours ago

Senior Product Manager, Perception Modeling

positionMountain View, CA
timeFull-time
remoteHybrid
senioritySenior Level
money$238K/yr - $302K/yr
date5+ years exp

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. They are seeking a Senior Product Manager for Perception Modeling to lead the vision and execution of model architectures and capabilities for their autonomous driving technology.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesSensorTransportation
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Responsibilities

Act as an approver for model launches, understanding and negotiating between trade offs, regressions, and improvements across all of a model’s surface area
Plan for future investments into model capabilities on a 12+ month timeline by understanding the limitations of the current model architecture and the immediate needs of our Ride Hailing business
Set the vision for our Object Generation model architecture on a 12-36 month timeline by understanding the overall needs of Waymo and the current State of the Art ML/AI research
Manage the execution of upcoming milestones by working directly with a group of 60+ engineers, Technical Program Managers, and other Product Managers
Conduct root cause analysis and conferring with partners in Engineering to propose viable solutions by examining AV behavior from a mix of real world, synthetic, and simulated events

Qualification

Product ManagementModel ArchitecturePerception ModelingModel OptimizationTechnical FluencyRoot Cause AnalysisCollaborationNegotiation

Required

5 years PM experience
Experience iterating on models over the course of 12+ months
Experience in launching new model architectures, model consolidation, or Foundational Model distillation
Experience optimizing models for compute efficiency
Technical fluency in Perception or related field

Preferred

7 years PM experience
Master's Degree in Engineering or previous experience working as an Engineer
Experience working with Perception models
Experience training and releasing Large Foundational Models, especially Gemini

Benefits

Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program
Equity incentive plan
Generous Company benefits program

Company

Waymo

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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.
dateFounded in 2009
location
Mountain View, California, USA
people-size1001-5000 employees
web-link
https://waymo.com

H1B Sponsorship

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Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$11.1B
Key Investors
Alphabet
2024-07-23Series C· $5.6B
2021-06-16Series B· $2.5B
2020-05-12Series A· $750M

Leadership Team

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Tekedra Mawakana
Co-Chief Executive Officer
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Elisa de Martel
Chief Financial Officer
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