Product Manager, Perception Modeling - Semantics

Lead product efforts for perception modeling in Waymo's ride-hailing and vehicle platforms.

• •Lead product efforts for perception modeling focused on object-level semantic understanding to support Waymo's ride-hailing and vehicle platforms.
• •Work cross-functionally to set vision, plan multi-year model investments, and approve model launches.
• •Key Responsibilities Approve model launches and balance tradeoffs across model metrics.
• •Plan 12–36 month model architecture and capability investments.
• •Manage execution with engineers, TPMs, and product managers.
• •Conduct root cause analysis using real, synthetic, and simulated data.
• •Requirements 5+ years Product Management experience.
• •Experience iterating and launching model architectures over 12+ months.
• •Technical fluency in perception or related ML fields and model compute optimization.
• •Experience with model consolidation or foundational model distillation.