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Technical Program Manager

Waymo· Waymo
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Remote$230k - $242kFull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Technical Program Manager role focusing on simulator and autonomous driving platform programs, coordinating cross-functional efforts to develop and scale a simulator environment and world model roadmap for Waymo Driver.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure that Waymo technology programs satisfy the business needs of internal and external users.
  • Develop simulator multi-platform strategy in partnership with engineering and product leads, contributing to simulator's long-term vision by defining OKRs, KPIs, roadmap, and success criteria.
  • Execute the foundational world model roadmap to ensure synthetic test suites are reliable, realistic, and representative of real-world performance in support of U.S. and international commercial expansion.
  • Create ML model development plans to improve simulator realism across 3D graphics, physics-based animation, sensor simulation, intelligent agent behavior, reactivity, and data augmentation.
  • Integrate the release process of the core simulator and intelligent simulation realism features with the onboard software release cadence to enhance transparency, compatibility, and system trust.
  • Develop scalable methodology, process, and tool for simulator realism evaluation, including the rollout of AI-assisted agentic workflows to enhance triage efficiency.
  • Lead simulator architecture transformation into a scalable product, driving initiatives to reduce configuration complexity, enhance self-serve tools, improve documentation, streamline onboarding, and reduce operational overhead to boost scenario creation throughput.
  • Built an adaptable program planning framework for a simulator platform, supporting feature intake, bug reporting, prioritization, execution tracking, and retrospectives to meet evolving requirements for a credible and scalable simulation system.
  • Drive alignments across key stakeholders with system engineering, simulation, evaluation, and onboard software teams to ensure globally optimized decisions that reflect top company priorities rather than isolated team-level objectives.
  • Represent the team’s scope and dependencies in cross-functional programs, aligning simulator milestones with company-wide goals to optimize resourcing between long-term foundational world model release and near-term program delivery.
  • Establish a program communication structure that connects sprint-level work with executive reviews, enabling clear updates on execution status, risks, and priorities.

Qualifications

  • Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Software Engineering, or related field and two years of experience in the job offered or a Technical Program Management related occupation.
  • Two years of experience in large scale project management (multiple projects, multiple stakeholders, large teams, complex team setup) with Agile, SAFe, Waterfall, Lean, and DAD;
  • Machine learning;
  • Software simulation tools;
  • End-to-end autonomous driving algorithm development;
  • System engineering and test methodologies technical management for autonomous driving applications;
  • Sensor system development technical management for autonomous driving applications;
  • Vehicle control system development technical management for autonomous driving applications.

Skills

Required:Master’s degree requirementLarge scale project managementAgile methodologiesMachine learningSoftware simulation toolsEnd-to-end autonomous driving algorithm developmentSystem engineering and test methodologiesSensor system developmentVehicle control system development

Benefits

  • Waymo employees are eligible to participate in discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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