Planner, Technical Lead Manager (Router)

The Router team is developing technologies, algorithms, ML models and infrastructure to produce routes from point A to point B that are safe, compliant and efficient, enabling Waymo One cars operating in dozens of cities under all driving conditions. The team is also responsible for destination management and inter-operating with the Waymo one application offboard. The team is mission critical to Waymo's operation. We address challenging problems in autonomous driving by closely collaborating with other Planner teams. 

You will:

• Manage, mentor and technically lead a team of software engineers and managers to ensure the Router team is happy and successful.
• Set the vision and strategy for the evolution of the team's infrastructure, eval, ML models and routing algorithms to solve routing challenges to enable Waymo vehicles to safely navigate any city in all conditions.
• Incorporate state of the art techniques to ensure safe, compliant and efficient routing and destination management. 
• Partner across Waymo with Planner, Perception, Simulation and Research teams to ensure an efficient end-to-end performance.

You have:

• Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Robotics, ML or similar technical field of study, or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of experience implementing reliable production systems involving large scale systems, evaluation pipelines, ML models and metrics. 
• Experience with Geo/Maps, Routing, Search, traditional ML development 
• Proficiency in C++ and hands-on SWE design skills
• 5+ years of experience managing a team

We prefer:

• Masters or PhD, preferably in ML, robotics, or related field
• Experience in AV planning, behavior prediction and motion planning