Senior Staff Technical Lead Manager - Mapping

The Waymo Mapping team's goal is to build a high resolution map of the world to support safe autonomous driving. We work on creating the map using a combination of automatic and manual techniques and build the infrastructure to store, process, and distribute the map. Our team collaborates with several other Waymo teams that consume map data.

This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to The Engineering Director; Mapping.

You will:

• Oversee multiple software teams in Waymo Mapping, covering Data/Eval, Infrastructure, and Tooling
• Scale Waymo's mapping systems to support mapping the entire world
• Shepherd the team through the agentic transition, both for coding and map automation
• Partner closely with multiple ML teams to productionize state-of-the-art ML systems
• Coordinate with the Mapping Operations team on rolling out new features and tools

You have:

• Significant experience as a people manager, including as a manager of managers
• Proven track record of leading a software team to solve difficult technical challenges
• Strong horizontal leadership abilities to successfully deliver on efforts involving many partner teams
• A bias towards execution
• Excellent technical judgement

We prefer:

• M.S. or Ph.D in Computer Science or a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years of experience with large scale distributed systems
• Experience overseeing multiple teams
• Background in data/eval for ML systems
• Experience with large-scale infrastructure and data processing frameworks
• Background in mapping

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