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Technical Lead Manager, Perception, Traffic Control Understanding

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

2026-01-26T18:11:28+00:00

Waymo's Scene Understanding team builds real-time, scene-level semantic representations of the road: construction zones, traffic controls, complex road graphs. The technical lead manager owns one domain there, sets and executes technical roadmaps with product and safety partners, and leads six to ten engineers as a hands-on manager — hiring, staffing, escalations. The posting asks for a computer science degree or equivalent, seven-plus years deploying deep learning or computer vision in production, two to three years managing five or more reports, and Python, C++, PyTorch or JAX.