Waymo · 19 hours ago
Program Manager, Scenario Quality and Maintenance Systems
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$152K/yr - $192K/yr
7+ years expWaymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. The role focuses on designing scalable quality architecture, managing quality assurance frameworks, and owning maintenance processes to ensure the safety and reliability of the Waymo Driver as the company expands its services.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesSensorTransportation
Responsibilities
Design Scalable Quality Architecture: Move the organization towards scalable QC (Quality Control) methodologies for test creation (e.g., statistical sampling, risk-based auditing, and automated validation). Be the primary architect of how we verify work at increased scale
Manage meta-quality assurance: Manage our meta-quality framework to drive overall test quality assurance. Review dashboards and trends to identify opportunities to improve first-time accuracy and reduce "rework" rates
Own the Maintenance Engine: Take ownership of the Maintenance Fulfillment funnel for test repairs. You will be responsible for the end-to-end velocity of resolving test-health issues identified by our Quality and Engineering teams
Match capacity with demand: Develop tiered standards and certification frameworks that enable our vendor workforce to perform a diverse range of quality fixes at different experience levels
Partner on Tooling development: Support the development of automation and AI-assisted tools that can decrease “Time-to-Resolution” for maintenance tasks identified by stakeholders
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in technical or business discipline
7+ years of experience in Technical Operations, Program Management, or Quality Engineering
Proficiency in SQL and data visualization and using it to identify root causes of operational bottlenecks
Ability to translate operational constraints into technical requirements and experience working across technical partners (Product, Engineering, Data Science, Systems Engineering) to drive outcomes
Ability to thrive in a high ambiguity, dynamic environment
Preferred
Undergraduate in technical degree
Experience working with vendor workforces
Experience with Lean / Six Sigma process improvement methodologies
Familiarity with AQL (Acceptable Quality Limit) sampling or other statistical process control methodologies
Experience within A / V space and simulation-based test environments
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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2025 (231)
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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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