Group Product Manager (Perception Modeling, Semantics)

Join Waymo's Product Management Team as a Group Product Manager, where you'll play a crucial role in bringing fully autonomous driving technology to market. You'll be responsible for understanding the customer, the business, and the technology, and for orchestrating cross-functional efforts to drive Waymo's technology and products forward. This hybrid role involves managing a team of 60+ engineers, Technical Program Managers, and other Product Managers, and requires a strong background in product management and technical fluency in perception or related fields.

• 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.
• 7 years Product Management experience
• Experience optimizing models for compute efficiency
• Experience in launching new model architectures, model consolidation, or Foundational Model distillation
• Experience iterating on models over the course of 12+ months
• Technical fluency in Perception or related field
• 10 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