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Lead modeling of weather patterns and their impact on the Waymo Driver. Build pipelines and spatio-temporal models integrating multiple weather data sources. Measure performance in adverse weather, develop scalable analysis frameworks, optimize operational mitigation processes, and collaborate with product and engineering. Act as a technical contributor and lead, scope ambiguous problems, and champion measurement rigor across teams.

Lead end-to-end partner strategy and management for payment processors, acquirers, networks, and fintechs. Negotiate complex international commercial agreements, coordinate cross-functional workstreams (Product, Engineering, Finance, Legal, Accounting), and build C-level relationships to design and scale Waymo's global payments infrastructure.

Source, negotiate, and manage strategic commercial and technical partnerships with mobile network operators and telco ecosystem partners. Act as primary partnership manager for telecom execs, drive joint reviews and co-innovation roadmaps, and coordinate cross-functional Product, Engineering, Legal, and Finance teams to ensure technical feasibility and deployment.

Define and own product vision and strategy for Waymo's autonomous vehicle simulator. Lead cross-functional teams to gather requirements, prioritize roadmap, improve simulator realism and efficiency, and integrate large-scale foundation models for simulation and synthetic data generation.

The Senior Software Engineer will drive the architecture of core services for evaluation workflows, mentor junior engineers, and ensure APIs meet evaluation complexities.

Build and productionize large-scale data pipelines and platforms to generate ML and evaluation datasets from driving logs and simulation data. Design tools for data mining, exploration, and analysis, and collaborate with Data Science and Quantitative Analytics to deliver high-impact, production-ready infrastructure and dataset generation.

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.