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Technical Lead Manager, Simulation Infrastructure

1/17/2026

Lead an Infrastructure team that builds and maintains reliable, highly-scalable, and cost-effective production services for Simulation-based Evaluation of the Waymo Driver. Set the technical vision and direction for your team and influence the broader Infrastructure Organization.

Working Hours

40 hours/week

Company Size

1,001-5,000 employees

Language

English

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About The Company

On the journey to be the world's most trusted driver. With the Waymo Driver, we can improve mobility while saving thousands of lives. Download the Waymo One app and ride today. Waymo reaches out to candidates from official channels only (e.g. directly from @waymo.com email addresses, or through our recruiters or sourcers who are noted as such on LinkedIn). We do not contact candidates about career opportunities through instant messaging apps like Telegram, email addresses from domains other than waymo.com (such as Gmail addresses), direct messages on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, or text messages. Visit waymo.com to check out our official job listings. Need support? Send us a message – we're here to help.

About the Role

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 Driver™—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.

Want to build the next generation of infrastructure for driverless cars? Join the Waymo Simulation Infrastructure team, and help power the future of transportation! We are looking for a passionate Staff SWE who wants to help build and manage planet-scale distributed systems. If you're someone who's curious and passionate about solving deep technical problems, and love collaborating across many teams to develop and deliver reliable, scalable, and cost-effective Infra services and tools, then we'd like to meet you!

In this role will report to a Senior Staff Software Engineer/TLM.

You will:

Lead an Infrastructure team that builds and maintains reliable, highly-scalable, and cost-effective production services to run Simulation-based Evaluation of the Waymo Driver
Set the technical vision and direction for your team, and also influence the direction of the broader Infrastructure Organization.
Manage a team of 3-4 junior and senior SWEs,
Contribute production grade code, execute code reviews, drive and influence detailed technical designs
Align and define plans for your team in addition to influencing planning and strategy of partners and the larger Organization

You have:

Hands-on experience building large-scale distributed systems
Proficient in C++, or a desire or openness to learn C++
2+ years directly managing Software Engineers
Demonstrated experience working cross functionally with Product, Program, Data Science, etc.
History of data-driven decision-making

It's a bonus if you have:

Experience working with different types of large scale systems
Familiarity with Google infrastructure (e.g. Flume, Borg)
10+ years experience in software development

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Key Skills

Distributed SystemsC++Software EngineeringTechnical LeadershipCross-Functional CollaborationData-Driven Decision Making