Senior TPM — ML Simulation & Platform Delivery

Neura Market; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 196,000 - 242,000; Full time

Job summary

Waymo, the world’s leading autonomous driving technology company, is hiring a Technical Program Manager in a hybrid role reporting to a Director of Technical Program Management. You will partner with engineering, product, and operations to execute complex programs that deploy the Waymo Driver across platforms and geographies.

The role emphasizes driving program execution, integrating ML into the development loop, managing dependencies and risks, coordinating releases, and scaling simulation

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of experience as a Technical Program Manager in a software engineering or large scale infrastructure environment
• 2+ years of experience managing technical projects involving machine learning infrastructure, model training/evaluation loops, or ML data pipelines
• Proven track record of owning and driving complex technical programs end-to-end, managing timelines, risks, and dependencies across multiple stakeholders
• Strong technical judgment with the ability to engage in design discussions with engineering leads and analyze technical trade offs
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to both research and infrastructure teams

Responsibilities

• Own and drive the execution of large, cross functional programs within the Simulation and ML Evaluation domain, translating technical roadmaps into structured project plans
• Drive the execution of programs that integrate simulation deeply into the ML development loop, establishing a seamless, reliable path for model training, offline evaluation, and validation
• Proactively identify, track, and mitigate technical dependencies, risks, and blockers across onboard software and offboard infrastructure teams
• Exercise strong technical judgment to contribute to tool/platform design discussions, evaluate architectural trade offs, and ensure deliverable quality
• Coordinate releases, manage tool deployment, and oversee triage workflows for simulation platforms to ensure high reliability and usability for developer teams
• Identify systemic bottlenecks in the offline evaluation loop and implement process or tooling improvements to scale simulation capabilities and efficiency

Skills

Program management

ML project experience

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Risk management

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

JAX

PyTorch

Cloud ML platforms

Job description

Waymo, the world’s leading autonomous driving technology company, is hiring a Technical Program Manager in a hybrid role reporting to a Director of Technical Program Management. You will partner with engineering, product, and operations to execute complex programs that deploy the Waymo Driver across platforms and geographies.

The role emphasizes driving program execution, integrating ML into the development loop, managing dependencies and risks, coordinating releases, and scaling simulation