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Technical Lead Manager, Perception, Vehicle Understanding

Waymo - Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA

Posted Jan 6, 2026

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Technical Lead Manager, Perception, Vehicle Understanding Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA 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 Driverâ„¢-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 Semantics Understanding team is tackling the "last 1%" of autonomous driving perception. In this role, you will own the production modules related to Vehicle Understanding for the Waymo Driver. This area includes vehicles' fine-grained classification (e.g., emergency, railed, construction, towing), states (e.g., warning, temporal blockage, active loading/unloading), and intents (e.g., lane-changes, stalled/slow, double-parking, unparking). Being on the critical path of Waymo's domestic/international expansion, you will drive immediate impact and the 0-to-1 changes that push boundaries of the Waymo Driver's generalizability. 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

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