Senior Product Manager, Simulation

Waymo is seeking a Senior Product Manager for Simulation to define product vision and strategy, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and enhance simulation capabilities for autonomous vehicles. 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. Waymo’s Product Management Team is a mission-driven team responsible for writing and enacting first-of-their-kind playbooks to bring fully autonomous driving technology to market. Our team develops simple solutions for complex problems by orchestrating cross-functional efforts to safely drive Waymo’s technology and the products it enables forward. We do this by understanding the customer, the business, and the technology. We are humble about the scope of our work, collaborative in our approach to problem-solving, and ambitious about our vision for the future.

• •Define and champion a compelling product vision and strategy for Waymo’s AV simulator.
• •Work with cross-functional teams, including product managers, operations, system engineering and safety experts to define product requirements.
• •Collaborate with Engineering, Research, Systems Engineering, Safety, and Operations teams to gather requirements, align roadmaps, and ensure successful development and deployment of new simulation capabilities.
• •Monitor and evaluate the performance of the simulator, identifying opportunities to improve realism and efficiency.
• •Partner with research to build and leverage large-scale foundation models in Simulation.

• •The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is $241,000 — $297,000 USD.
• •Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level.
• •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.