Technical Program Manager, Vehicle Security

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.

Waymo’s Product Management Team is a mission-driven team responsible for writing and enacting first-of-their-kind playbooks to bring fully autonomous driving technology to market. Our team develops simple solutions for complex problems by orchestrating cross-functional efforts to safely drive Waymo’s technology and the products it enables forward. We do this by understanding the customer, the business, and the technology. We are humble about the scope of our work, collaborative in our approach to problem-solving, and ambitious about our vision for the future.

This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to the Manager of Technical Program Management, Cybersecurity.

• Design, own, and drive the horizontal vehicle cybersecurity roadmap, managing the interplay between base vehicle platforms and the Waymo Driver autonomous driving system across all existing and new vehicle platforms.

• Coordinate and align Waymo internal engineering, product management and operations to design, implement, validate, and maintain base vehicle cybersecurity features.

• Manage the end-to-end Vehicle Security Requirement Process Flow from ideation, risk-based triage, requirement definition, feature design, commitment, implementation and verification and stakeholder governance.

• Drive regular software release cybersecurity reporting, tracking key metrics for upcoming software releases and providing stakeholder updates as to the status, risks and success likelihood of cybersecurity features.

• Partner with Waymo Fleet Operations to ensure cybersecurity features are operating effectively and operational frictions are identified and mitigated. Systematically identify where security controls create operational friction or negatively affect fleet usage, driving cross-functional technical solutions to deployment within agreed operational timelines.

• Work proactively to ensure base vehicle security architectures meet Waymo's highest security bar and conform to applicable automotive standards and regulations (e.g., ISO/SAE 21434, UN ECE R155, UN ECE R156).

• 8+ years relevant work experience in Technical Program Management within complex embedded systems, product security or safety-critical engineering environments (e.g. automotive, aerospace, defense or robotics).

• A BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Cybersecurity, or equivalent practical experience.

• Demonstrated technical fluency in embedded and modern vehicle cybersecurity concepts with the ability to act as a technical peer to Systems Engineering and Security Engineering when discussing vehicle networks (CAN, Automotive Ethernet, ECUs), autonomous driving hardware/software systems and onboard security features.

• Proven track record of leading multi-company and cross-functional initiatives spanning