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Posted Feb 9, 2026 · Perception (7LT)

Staff TLM, Perception, Sensor Pipelines

Open 120d+ Senior Managerest Hands-on Hybrid $251k–310k
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Direct from Waymo's careers pageVerified fresh Oct 17, 2026 via their Greenhouse job board. Removed here within a day of closing.
Open 250 days
Since Feb 9, 2026 · open 4+ months, possibly an evergreen or ghost posting
No reposts seen. Repost tracking started Oct 17, 2026.
Pay: above median
Midpoint $280k vs median $275k for non-remote Senior Manager roles we track (n=97)
Percentile 59 of posted US base ranges at this level · See the Senior Manager salary page
Player-coach
Mixed signals: IC-style wording plus some people-management duties. Expect a split between coding and managing.
  • ✓ hiring for the team; manages a team of engineersIn this hybrid role you will report to a Senior Engineering Manager and manage and grow a team of engineers working on Perception ML pipelines.
  • • tech-lead-manager / IC wording in the title

About the role

The Perception team builds the system which learns the spatial-temporal representation and their semantic meanings of the surrounding environment of the self-driving car, i.e., the system that “perceives” the world around the car. In this hybrid role you will report to a Senior Engineering…

Short summary only. The full description, requirements and application are on Waymo's careers site.

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