- Pay
- $60–$70/hr
- Where
- Mountain View, California
- Posted
- 2 days ago
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.
The Hardware Global Supply Management (GSM) - Silicon & Electronic Components team manages high-complexity, high-value commercial sourcing for custom Silicon (E.g.
What you'd do
- Perform should-cost modeling, component teardown analysis
- RFP/RFQ process documentation and template standardization; automation for feedback ingestion and analysis
What they want
- Enrolled in a BS or MS program in Supply Chain Management, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, or related technical fields.
- Understanding of semiconductor and electronic components fabrication, packaging, passive/discrete component lifecycles, and design fundamentals.
- Proficiency in AI and automation via prompting, Python scripting, agentic automation frameworks, and workspace automation.
- Strong experience with bottom-up should-cost modeling, Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), and large-scale BOM/financial analytics in Excel/Sheets.
- Strong ability to collaborate with engineering/architecture teams to drive commercial supplier negotiations and financial modeling for component selection processes.
- Prior experience building prototype/NPI pipelines with validation logging and human-in-the-loop review.
- Communication skills with the ability to synthesize complex technical tradeoffs into crisp executive summaries.
- Highly capable of navigating ambiguity and operating with independence in a fast-paced environment.