Program Manager, Mapping Operations
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Overview
Waymo is seeking a Program Manager for Mapping Operations to lead investigations, manage initiatives, and analyze data to enhance autonomous driving technology. 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. The Mapping Operations team is responsible for building, validating, and continuously improving the high-definition maps that power Waymo’s autonomous driving system. The team ensures that the vehicle has an accurate, up-to-date understanding of the world by transforming raw sensor data into reliable, production-ready map assets. MapOps sits at the intersection of autonomous driving, data operations, and quality assurance, partnering closely with Engineering, ML, and Product teams to support safe, scalable deployment across new and existing markets.
What you'll do
- •Lead Root-Cause Investigations: Lead deep dives into map quality issues to identify organizational breakdowns, workflow vulnerabilities, and metric anomalies.
- •Act as a Technical Bridge: Serve as the connector between Engineering/Product and Operations.
- •Drive Concurrent Initiatives: Manage progress on multiple disparate initiatives, ensuring next steps are clear and deadlines are aligned.
- •Data Analysis & Heuristics: Scrutinize data trends to back up assertions and explore anomalies.
Conditions
- •Salary Range $130,000 — $160,000 USD.
- •Eligible for Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.