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Staff Tech Lead Manager, Machine Learning, Simulator Evaluation

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experi

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Company

Waymo

Location

Mountain View, California, United States; San Francisco, California, United States.

Status

Open

Posted

2026-09-17T18:34:35+00:00

Waymo seeks a staff technical lead manager for its Simulator Evaluation team in Mountain View or San Francisco. It leads an applied ML group building evaluation frameworks, infrastructure, and AI tools for World Model quality testing. Duties include technical direction, metrics that surface anomalies and edge cases, and work with product, research, onboard, and simulation teams. The posting asks for a technical degree or equivalent, 3+ years managing 5–10 engineers, 7+ years in production ML, Python or C++, and ML frameworks. The simulator combines deterministic logic, physics, and generative AI.