Staff Software Technical Program Manager, OEM Software

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.

Technical Program Managers are accountable for executing Waymo’s roadmap working closely with every function at Waymo, in particular Engineering. TPM’s drive alignment on goals and tasks, execute towards them, and communicate with a broad range of stakeholders. In this role be prepared to roll up your sleeves and dive deep into technical issues, work broadly across our OEMs and Waymo, and be part of developing new approaches to support our scaling needs.

You will

• Drive alignment on requirements and milestones between Waymo’s Systems & Software teams and our OEM vehicle partners.
• Establish appropriate software development and release processes to manage software from the OEMs through to deployment on Waymo vehicles.
• Be hands on with day to day technical and operational issues.
• Prioritize, advocate for, and own execution towards various milestones across numerous (competing) p