Senior Product Manager, Autonomous Driving Reliability

Neura Market; Mountain View, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 241,000 - 297,000; Full time

Job summary

Waymo, in Mountain View, CA, seeks a senior Product Manager to lead reliability initiatives for the Waymo Driver across platforms and regions. You will translate long-term vision into actionable roadmaps, balancing safety, performance, and scalability.

The role reports to a Director of Product and requires collaboration with hardware, software, and data science teams in a hybrid work environment. AV/robotics/AI experience and strong analytics are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical or engineering field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years experience working on AV, Robotics, or products that utilize Machine Learning or AI.
• Experience in analytical roles or AI / ML roles, interacting with data scientists, and a solid statistics foundation,
• Experience working at the intersection of hardware and software.
• A deep understanding of driving, vehicles and rules of the road.
• Ability to think about long-term product vision, and then decompose that into concrete, actionable plans with cross-org alignment.

Responsibilities

• Set the roadmap for how we evaluate the reliability of the Waymo driver: measure how, when and where the hardware or software fails and what happens as a result.
• Be responsible for the onboard solutions, hardware changes, and testing strategies to minimize reliability failures, and mitigate issues in the field.
• Look to the future at new hardware platforms, new geographic launches and new ODDs, and build the systems and tools to ensure we have a reliable vehicle as we grow.
• Understand vehicle reliability as Waymo expands to more platforms/regions.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical or engineering field

Job description

Waymo, in Mountain View, CA, seeks a senior Product Manager to lead reliability initiatives for the Waymo Driver across platforms and regions. You will translate long-term vision into actionable roadmaps, balancing safety, performance, and scalability.

The role reports to a Director of Product and requires collaboration with hardware, software, and data science teams in a hybrid work environment. AV/robotics/AI experience and strong analytics are essential.