Technical Lead Manager, Perception, Vehicle Understanding

In this hybrid role, you will report to our Senior Staff TLM of Semantics Understanding.

You Will: 

• Lead a team responsible for a key production area to scale Waymo's business
• Develop a strong collaborative relationship with upstream and downstream teams to facilitate the end-to-end solutions for the corresponding product domains
• Exercise technical leadership by pushing the boundaries of onboard/offboard generalizability, e.g., by leveraging onboard/offboard multi-modal foundational models, large-scale 3rd party data, and partner teams in Research, Oracles, and Simulation.
• Manage a team (~10) with diverse skills including engineering, modeling, ML infrastructure, of senior and junior SWEs, foster an inclusive culture for sustained team growth, and hiring world-class talents.
• Collaborate with Platform/Infra partners to optimize the team’s key pipelines (e.g., data, training, evaluation, onboard) for high performance, efficiency, and reliability.
• Develop the execution strategies that balance short-term and long-term priorities. Drive process and clarify R&Rs for cross-organizational alignments. 

You Have: 

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Machine Learning  or related disciplines
• 7+ years of experience in deep learning systems, specifically in computer vision, or multi-modal perception
• 3+ years of experience managing medium-sized (10+ people) production teams in complex, fast-paced environments with a track record in developing team culture and growing people.
• Experience in collaborating with technical, research and business stakeholders to drive impactful solutions. 

We Prefer: 

• PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning or related disciplines
• Publications in top CV conferences (NeurIPS, CVPR, ICCV, etc.)
• Experience in the autonomous vehicles industry