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# Technical Program Manager, Product Security at Waymo

- **Company:** Waymo
- **Location:** Mountain View, CA / San Francisco, CA / Novi, MI
- **Compensation:** $196k–$242k
- **Posted:** 2026-08-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-11
- **Apply:** https://careers.withwaymo.com/jobs?gh_jid=8109523

## Job description

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.

You will:

- Own and drive the multi-year product security roadmap for the Waymo Driver and the vehicle platforms it integrates with, spanning embedded compute, sensors, vehicle networks, and the cloud services that provision, update, and operate our fleet.
- Lead cross-functional security programs through hardware, embedded software, cloud infrastructure, manufacturing, and fleet operations teams, turning security goals into committed plans, owners, and milestones.
- Drive security requirements from threat analysis through implementation and verification, and own release security reporting: requirement coverage, open risks, exceptions, and readiness for each software and hardware release.
- Frame trade-offs between security, performance, schedule, and operability as clear options, and drive decisions to completion with accountable owners.
- Drive security across the full device lifecycle, from secure manufacturing and key provisioning through secure boot, over-the-air updates, field operations, and vulnerability response, until controls are verified across the deployed fleet.
- Partner with vehicle and hardware platform partners, and keep programs aligned with applicable product security standards and regulations (e.g., ISO/SAE 21434, UN R155/R156) as Waymo expands internationally.

You have:

- 8+ years of relevant experience, including 5+ years of technical program management delivering hardware, embedded, or device-to-cloud products.
- A hands-on security background (e.g., security engineering, embedded or firmware security, product security architecture). You can explain how security controls work, how they fail, and what they cost to build, and you act as a technical peer to security and systems engineers.
- Experience delivering security capabilities on shipped hardware or embedded products, such as secure or verified boot, hardware roots of trust (HSM, TPM, secure element, TEE), PKI and key management, code signing, secure OTA updates, or authenticated communication.
- A track record of delivering cross-functional programs through teams you did not manage, including getting security work prioritized against competing product goals.
- Experience framing technical risk for decision makers and driving decisions through to execution, with clear communication to both engineers and executives.
- A BS in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, or equivalent practical experience.

We prefer:

- Prior engineering experience in security, firmware, or embedded systems before moving into technical program management.
- Experience securing production fleets of connected devices (vehicles, robots, drones, consumer or industrial devices), including vulnerability response and verifying remediation across the deployed fleet.
- Experience with secure manufacturing at contract manufacturers: device identity, key injection, and factory signing infrastructure.
- Experience with real-time or in-vehicle networks and their security (e.g., CAN/CAN FD, Automotive Ethernet, SecOC, diagnostic authentication), or with safety-critical systems (e.g., ISO 26262, DO-178C, IEC 61508).
- Familiarity with product security standards and regulation (e.g., ISO/SAE 21434, UN R155/R156, IEC 62443, EU Cyber Resilience Act, FIPS 140-3) and threat analysis methods (TARA, STRIDE); experience building release security metrics and exception and risk-acceptance processes.

Travel requirements:

- Approximately 10%: quarterly team alignment in the Bay Area (for hires based outside the Bay Area), plus program travel to vehicle platform partners, manufacturing sites, and depots as needed.

The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process.

Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.

Salary Range $196,000—$242,000 USD

## About Waymo

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company that develops and operates the Waymo Driver, a self-driving system used for ride-hailing and trucking, with a mission to be the world’s most trusted driver.
- **Entity Type**: Private (subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google)
- **Headquarters**: Mountain View, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2009 (as the Google self-driving car project); became an independent company under Alphabet in 2016
- **Founders**: The project was initiated by Sebastian Thrun (Google X), with key early contributions from Anthony Levandowski and others. Current leadership is Co-CEOs Tekedra Mawakana and Dmitri Dolgov, and Chief Safety Officer Mauricio Peña.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Autonomous vehicles, self-driving technology, ride-hailing, autonomous trucking, mobility-as-a-service
- **Target customers**: B2C (riders via Waymo One), B2B (fleet operators, logistics companies, and partners), and enterprise (autonomous trucking and delivery)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “To be the world’s most trusted driver.” Waymo aims to save lives, drive inclusive mobility, and improve the state of the planet by making transportation safer, more accessible, and sustainable.

## Products & Services
- **Waymo One**: The world’s first commercial autonomous ride-hailing service. Offers fully driverless rides to the public in Metro Phoenix, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. The fleet is now all-electric (Jaguar I-PACE).
- **Waymo Via**: Autonomous trucking and logistics service for freight movement, operating with partners to move goods on highways.
- **Waymo Driver**: The company’s core autonomous driving system (software + hardware stack). It is designed to be integrated into various vehicle platforms for ride-hailing, trucking, and delivery.
- **Waymo Open Dataset**: A publicly available dataset of autonomous driving sensor data, provided to researchers to accelerate breakthroughs in the field.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (as a private subsidiary of Alphabet). Alphabet’s market cap is ~$2 trillion (as of mid-2025). Waymo is considered Alphabet’s most valuable “Other Bet.”
- **Key Metric**: Over 20 million rider-only (fully autonomous) rides served as of early 2025. 94% fewer serious injury crashes compared to human drivers over the same distance in operating cities.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Alphabet Inc. (parent company). Partners include Jaguar Land Rover (vehicle supply), Daimler Trucks (trucking), and various fleet operators and delivery services.
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid geographic expansion (largest fully autonomous service area in the world at 180 sq miles in Phoenix); transition to an all-electric fleet; expansion into Los Angeles and San Francisco; growing public trust (93% rider satisfaction rate); continuous hiring across engineering, operations, and AI.

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover & scale**: Waymo is the only company operating a fully autonomous, commercial, paid ride-hailing service across multiple major US cities, with millions of real-world miles driven without a human safety driver.
- **Deep Alphabet backing**: Access to vast resources, AI talent (DeepMind/Google Brain), and infrastructure (Google Maps, Cloud, AI chips).
- **Safety track record**: Publicly released data showing a 82-94% reduction in injury-causing crashes compared to human drivers, building regulatory and public trust.
- **Full-stack approach**: In-house development of hardware (LIDAR, cameras, radar), software (perception, planning, simulation), and operations (fleet management, rider experience).

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling safely**: Expanding service areas (adding more cities and suburbs) while maintaining a strong safety record.
- **All-electric fleet**: Transitioning the entire Waymo One fleet to zero-emission vehicles (Jaguar I-PACE) to align with sustainability goals.
- **Trucking & logistics**: Growing Waymo Via to capture the massive autonomous trucking market, partnering with OEMs and shippers.
- **AI & simulation**: Using advanced AI (including large models and generative AI) to improve the Waymo Driver’s decision-making and simulation-based validation.
- **Accessibility & inclusive mobility**: Designing for riders with disabilities, older adults, and underserved communities to ensure transportation is available to all.

## Why Work Here
- **Impact**: Work on technology that directly saves lives (1.4M traffic deaths globally each year) and reshapes the future of transportation.
- **Culture**: Waymo describes itself as a place for “ambitious thinkers and relentless problem solvers” with a deep respect for getting every detail right. Values include safety, innovation, and responsibility.
- **Teams**: Opportunities across Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, AI Foundations, Product & Design, Operations & Supply Chain, Safety, Policy, and General & Administrative roles.
- **Internships**: Strong early-career program with internships for Bachelors, Masters, MBA, and PhD candidates, often leading to full-time offers.
- **Hiring process**: Transparent and structured. Includes an initial recruiter screen, 1-2 phone/video interviews, and a virtual onsite (up to 5 interviews). Emphasizes problem-solving, collaboration, and real-time thinking. AI tools are not permitted during technical assessments to ensure fair evaluation.
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: The careers page lists both on-site and remote roles, with most engineering and operations roles based in Mountain View, San Francisco, or other US locations.
- **Benefits**: Top-notch benefits, unique learning opportunities, thoughtful community engagement, and meaningful gatherings. Specific perks are not detailed publicly but are described as comprehensive.

## Sources
1. [Waymo.com](https://waymo.com/) – Official company website (mission, history, safety data)
2. [Waymo About Page](https://waymo.com/about/) – Company history, leadership, and milestones
3. [Waymo Careers Page](https://careers.withwaymo.com/) – Culture, teams, hiring process, benefits
4. [Waymo Open Roles](https://careers.withwaymo.com/jobs/search) – Current job listings and departments
5. [Waymo How We Hire](https://careers.withwaymo.com/how-we-hire) – Interview process, tips, and accessibility

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