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Senior Staff Technical Lead Manager, In-Car Experience

Waymo· Software Engineering
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Mountain View, California$298k - $368kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Lead and manage multiple TLMs to design and deliver the entire in-car experience (ICX) for Waymo's autonomous vehicle platform, guiding multi-year technical vision, cross-team collaboration, and high-impact feature integration.

Responsibilities

  • Be a manager of a few TLMs and their teams, leading the development of all components of the entire in-car experience (ICX), partnering with product, design, and data science on creating the premier autonomous vehicle experience.
  • Set the overarching technical architecture, defining a multi-year technical vision across the entire in-car experience (ICX), bridging the gap between the different layers of the stack, from low-level hardware bring-up to our OS to rider-facing apps and features.
  • Identify broad, cross-team bottlenecks (e.g., OS stability, rendering performance, release automation), and translate them into clear, actionable engineering milestones for the teams to execute on that improve both velocity and stability.
  • Steer the technical integration of complex, high-impact features, such as our 3D car view, AI features, and in-car app ecosystem.
  • Act as a force multiplier for the organization by establishing high standards for code health, system reliability, and testing excellence, while providing deep technical mentorship to junior and senior engineers.
  • Set high level direction and empower your TLMs to drive projects, while you ensure the bar is met and the sum of the pieces is aligned and creates a cohesive and compelling product

Qualifications

  • Management experience with a total team size over 25 with multiple sub-teams.
  • Managed multiple TLMs, each with team size of 6-8
  • Proven experience as a technical lead with a track record of setting strategic technical direction and delivering concrete solutions for complex, multi-team domains.
  • Experience working with Android/AOSP (building Android platform features, frameworks), not just developing apps on top of Android
  • Deep expertise spanning the modern application and embedded stack, specifically involving Android OS internals, C++ native layers, and modern UI frameworks (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose), as well as complementary backend systems.
  • Strong system design skills with a demonstrated ability to decouple monolithic architectures, build reusable platform infrastructure, and optimize resource-constrained environments.
  • Exceptional communication and cross-functional leadership skills, capable of influencing without direct authority to build alignment across Product, UX, Systems Engineering, and Hardware teams.
  • AI-native mindset with a proven track record of deploying agent systems to improve team velocity

Skills

Required:Team leadershipAndroid/AOSPAndroid OS internals, C++ native layers, Kotlin, Jetpack ComposeSystem design

Benefits

  • Salary Range: $298,000—$368,000 USD
  • Discretionary annual bonus program
  • Equity incentive plan
  • Generous company benefits program (health, dental, vision, etc.)
  • Flexible work options (on-site or hybrid) and remote opportunities
  • Paid time off, bereavement, sick, and parental leave
  • Education reimbursement and professional development opportunities
  • Employee resources groups and volunteer time off
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Waymo—formerly the Google self-driving car project—makes it safe and easy for people & things to get around with autonomous vehicles.

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