Teams at Waymo

Leads network operations for resilient, high-availability infrastructure supporting autonomous fleet and enterprise systems. Manages engineers, technical staff, vendors, major incidents, ITIL service processes, deployments, network device maintenance, documentation, and continuous improvement. Provides technical leadership for routing, infrastructure design, event correlation, and automation initiatives. Requires extensive network operations or engineering experience, people management, and high-bandwidth infrastructure expertise, with preferred experience in Ansible, Python, Terraform, BGP, and complex routing.

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.