As a Technical Lead / Manager in the Driver Understanding and Evaluation Experience team, you will lead our Assessment Tooling team.  This team develops the user-facing tools and infrastructure that are used internally to understand the Waymo Driver’s performance.  These web-based applications help to smooth the build, evaluate, launch workflow and are used by every part of Waymo, including SWEs, PMs, Data Scientists, Ops, and Research.  They are a core part of solving almost every self-driving challenge that Waymo faces. 

You will lead a team of Software Engineers and collaborate with users, Product Managers, and our UX team to build products that improve Waymo’s engineering capabilities around our toughest self-driving challenges.

In this hybrid role, you will report to a Senior Engineering Manager.

You will:

• Manage a team to deliver tooling to facilitate human evaluation of driving events
• Build quarterly and annual technical roadmaps that meet product requirements and manage work on the team towards those goals.
• Collaborate across departments and  align execution to meet product goals
• Partner with technical leads, product managers and program managers to lead execution on broad efforts
• Lead proactive risk management efforts and contingency plans across the program landscape to achieve the program
• Set up and sustain mechanisms that promote organizational efficiencie.s, and improve speed of decision-making and execution

You have:

• 10+ year of experience leading engineering teams of 5-15 people, delivering on both short-term goals and long-term strategic plans.
• Leverage technical expertise to communicate with engineering leads, assessing technical trade-offs and their impacts on project scope, risk, and timelines
• 10+ years of experience developing, and deploying internal tools that improve engineering efficiency or productivity.
• 10+ years of experience in full-stack Web development, comfortable with both front-end and back-end
• 10+ years of experience managing engineers, including conducting performance reviews, promoting career development, and facilitating collaboration.
• BS in Computer Science or related field

We prefer:

• Advanced degree (MS or Ph.D.) in Computer Science or a related field and 10+ years of software engineering experience
• Familiarity with human-computer interaction (HCI) principles and experience crowdsourcing platforms or human-in-the-loop systems
• Proficiency in C++
• Proficiency in TypeScript
• Experience leading geographically distributed engineering teams