Full Vehicle Platform Architect
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Overview
Waymo is seeking a Full Vehicle Platform Architect to lead the development of vehicle layouts for autonomous driving technology, focusing on innovative solutions and collaboration with external partners. 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. Hardware Engineering is a diverse, innovative, and collaborative group of electrical, mechanical, reliability, software and vehicle engineers. We design, build, and perfect the products which are the eyes and ears of Waymo's autonomous driving technology, and integrate those products into vehicle platforms.
What you'll do
- •Work with Waymo’s Product, Design, Systems, and Attribute Teams to develop package targets and vehicle layouts for new vehicle platforms centered around AV and TaaS.
- •Develop platform concepts and solutions that enable multiple vehicle layouts to be delivered on a common platform.
- •Partner with Systems and Attribute Teams to resolve conflicting technical requirements, leveraging CAD geometry and section analysis to propose balanced sub-system solutions.
- •Communicate layouts and targets to external OEM partners using 3D geometry and CAD sections, pushing them to deliver innovative solutions tailored to Waymo's needs.
- •Drive Executive Leadership Team (ELT) alignment on new vehicle concepts through compelling presentations and physical mockups.
Conditions
- •Global travel required for on-site OEM engagements (10%).
- •Occasional travel to other Waymo locations, suppliers, and service providers on an as-needed basis (10%).
- •The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is $230,000 — $284,000 USD.
- •Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.