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Staff Technical Lead Manager, ML Sensor Validation

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

Company

Waymo

Location

Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA

Status

Open

Posted

2025-07-25T18:29:18+00:00

Waymo's Perception organization is hiring a Staff Technical Lead Manager for Sensor Validation, based in Mountain View or San Francisco. The role leads a team of ML engineers working on sensing anomaly detection and calibration, builds a data flywheel that generates training data for rare sensor degradation events using vision-language models, and owns the sensor validation stack end to end. The posting asks for an MS, six years of ML-driven real-time robotics work, four years setting technical direction, and two years of people management.