Waymo

ProductManager,PerceptionModeling-Semantics

$241–297k Mountain View, California, United States Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
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The Brief

“Product Manager, Perception Modeling - Semantics at Waymo. Skills: Perception Modeling, Semantics, Product Management. Act as an approver for model launches, understanding and negotiating between tradeoffs, regressions, and improvements across all of a model’s surface area. Plan for future investments into model capabilities on a 12+ month timeline by understanding the limitations of the current model architecture and the immediate needs of our RIdehailing business”

What You'll Achieve.

improve access to mobility; saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes; bring fully autonomous driving technology to market; safely drive Waymo’s technology and the products it enables forward

Industry & Context.

Problems you'll solve

negotiating between tradeoffs, regressions, and improvements; understanding the limitations of the current model architecture; propose viable solutions; Conduct root cause analysis

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5 years Product Management experience, Experience iterating on models over the course of 12+ months, Experience in launching new model architectures, model consolidation, or Foundational Model distillation, Experience optimizing models for compute efficiency, Technical fluency in Perception or related field

Nice to Have

7 years Product Management experience, Master’s Degree in Engineering or previous experience working as an Engineer, Experience working with Perception models, Experience training and releasing Large Foundational Models, especially Gemini

What You'll Do.

Act as an approver for model launches

understanding and negotiating between tradeoffs

and improvements across all of a model’s surface area

Plan for future investments into model capabilities on a 12+ month timeline by understanding the limitations of the current model architecture and the immediate needs of our RIdehailing business

Set the vision for model architecture on a 12-36 month timeline by understanding the overall needs of Waymo and the current State of the Art ML/AI research

focused on Object-level Semantic understanding + reasoning

Manage the execution of upcoming milestones by working directly with a group of 60+ engineers

Technical Program Managers

and other Product Managers

Conduct root cause analysis and conferring with partners in Engineering to propose viable solutions by examining AV behavior from a mix of real world

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

orchestrating cross-functional efforts; working directly with a group of 60+ engineers, Technical Program Managers, and other Product Managers; conferring with partners in Engineering

Process & Methodology

Manage the execution of upcoming milestones

Full Job Description

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 Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U. S. states. Waymo’s Product Management Team is a mission-driven team responsible for writing and enacting first-of-their-kind playbooks to bring fully autonomous driving technology to market. Our team develops simple solutions for complex problems by orchestrating cross-functional efforts to safely drive Waymo’s technology and the products it enables forward. We do this by understanding the customer, the business, and the technology. We are humble about the scope of our work, collaborative in our approach to problem-solving, and ambitious about our vision for the future. This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to a Group Product Manager. You will: Act as an approver for model launches, understanding and negotiating between tradeoffs, regressions, and improvements across all of a model’s surface area Plan for future investments into model capabilities on a 12+ month timeline by understanding the limitations of the current model architecture and the immediate needs of our RIdehailing business Set the vision for model architecture on a 12-36 month timeline by understanding the overall needs of Waymo and the current State of the Art ML/AI research, focused on Object-level Semantic understanding + reasoning Manage the execution of upcoming milestones by working directly with a grou

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