Senior Product Manager, Autonomous Vehicle Reliability
Waymo · Mountain View, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, US
Posted about 3 months ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 79 days Waymo's roles stay open a median of 103 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Waymo's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Waymo
- high 353 stale, 9 reposted of 353 open
- Hiring momentum
- 66 roles opened in the last 90 days ↓ down vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-11-14
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Waymo's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Waymo.
About this role
As a Senior Product Manager for Autonomous Vehicle Reliability at Waymo, you will be responsible for setting the roadmap to evaluate the reliability of the Waymo Driver. This includes measuring hardware and software failures, developing onboard solutions, and creating testing strategies to enhance product safety and quality. You will also focus on future hardware platforms and geographic expansions to ensure reliability as the company grows.
- benefits
- 2/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Waymo as an employer.
What you need
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical or engineering field, or equivalent practical experience
- 10+ years experience working on AV, Robotics, or products that utilize Machine Learning or AI
- Experience in analytical roles or AI / ML roles, interacting with data scientists, and a solid statistics foundation
- Experience working at the intersection of hardware and software
- A deep understanding of driving, vehicles and rules of the road
- Ability to think about long-term product vision, and then decompose that into concrete, actionable plans with cross-org alignment
Nice to have
- Experience with Evaluation of AVs, Large Foundational Model training / evaluation pipelines or the evaluation / experimentation platforms for large production systems (Ads, Search, Ranking, etc.)
- Experience working on system reliability of large fleets, servers, hardware deployments, data centers
- An understanding of the hardware pieces that go into an autonomous vehicle stack, decomposition of system reliability and experience evaluating system performance
- Master's degree in a technical or engineering field, or equivalent practical experience
What you get
- Discretionary annual bonus program
- Equity incentive plan
- Generous Company benefits program
Worth weighing
- No specific details on the hybrid work schedule
- Salary range provided but actual pay depends on various factors
- Role involves complex problem-solving in a rapidly evolving field
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Listed by Waymo on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-11-14. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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