Group Product Manager, Perception Modeling - Semantics

Waymo; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Waymo is seeking a Product Manager to drive complex projects in the autonomous driving sector. The candidate will take charge of orchestrating cross-functional teams, ensuring successful model launches, and defining future model capabilities. This role emphasizes collaboration, technical fluency, and a vision for advancing Waymo's technology.

Located in San Francisco, this position involves a hybrid work schedule and requires significant experience in Product Management and understanding of AI models, especially in the context of Perception.

Qualifications

• 7 years of Product Management experience.
• Experience in iterating on models for 12+ months.
• Experience launching new model architectures.

Responsibilities

• Manage model launches and tradeoffs.
• Plan for model capabilities investment over the next 12 months.
• Set the vision for model architecture for up to 36 months.

Skills

Product Management experience

Technical fluency in Perception

Model optimization

Education

Master’s Degree in Engineering

Job description

Requirements

• 7 years Product Management 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
• (Desirable) 10 years Product Management experience
• (Desirable) Master’s Degree in Engineering or previous experience working as an Engineer
• (Desirable) Experience working with Perception models
• (Desirable) Experience training and releasing Large Foundational Models, especially Gemini

What the job involves

• 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
• Act as an approver for model launches, understanding and negotiating between tradeoffs, 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 RIdehailing business
• Set the vision for 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, focused on Object-level Semantic understanding + reasoning
• 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