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Define technical vision and architecture for agentic, multi-agent systems that improve autonomous-driving event triage and evaluation. Lead development of scalable frameworks supporting dynamic reasoning, planning, tool use, self-reflection, and orchestration. Identify applications across the Waymo Driver evaluation lifecycle, establish roadmaps, collaborate across teams, and mentor engineers. The role requires extensive software engineering and AI/ML expertise, technical leadership, and experience building complex production systems.

The Staff Technical Program Manager will manage simulation compute resources, develop execution strategies, and influence stakeholders for project success.

Lead identification, negotiation, and implementation of strategic partner agreements; build executive relationships; develop and execute partnership plans and RFX processes to expand services globally; drive cross-functional collaboration and establish internal best practices to support Waymo's commercial expansion.

Lead procurement strategy for engineering services and R&D hardware, manage high-volume outsourced engineering contracts, negotiate complex commercial and IP terms, structure SOWs/NREs/JDM/ODM agreements, optimize manufacturing relationships, perform make-vs-buy analyses, partner with Legal on IP and cybersecurity, and present TCO to Finance and Hardware leadership to support rapid hardware prototyping and development.