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Proving Ground Technician Manager
Waymo LLC · 🇺🇸 Tempe, AZ, USA
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 290 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 87 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Waymo LLC paid sponsored hires in similar roles8 certified filings for “Product Manager” (Information Technology Project Managers) in CA: $207k–$245k, median $230k. Most were filed at wage level IV (63%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 290 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 87 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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. In this role, you will scale global fleet readiness by diagnosing novel issues, enable Waymo partners in depots, & support our engineering peers to ensure rapid platform enablement to deliver the Waymo Driver to the world. This role will work onsite in the office and reports to the Senior Lead, Fleet Readiness. You will: • Manage complex and novel testing program requirements with high detail and concise feedback loops to effectively develop the Waymo driver and new OEM integration platforms at scale. The program requires close coordination across multiple testing facilities to support upcoming vehicle platforms and shifting testing volume. • Maintain the ability to pivot resources and realign to dynamically shifting needs of accelerated programs. This includes managing the shift in work volume from technically mature platforms and systems to less mature vehicles. As well as upcoming platform mules and very early prototypes. • Intake information from program managers to effectively prioritize new workflows, overlapping requirements, and conflicting needs across high priority asks from Waymo. Priorities must align with shifting fleet counts, including the scaling of multiple vehicle configurations through early phase NPI including non production interposer builds and the management of decommissioning at end of life. • Establish SLAs and KPIs with our extended workforce teams and vendor managers to maintain rigorous operational metrics. These targets will cover key scope areas such as fleet health maintenance, work order resolution, and the build-up of specific hardware testing lab assets. • Coordinate testing priorities and workflows with cross-functional engineering leads, including the Systems Engineering teams responsible for allocating and running closed course testing missions. Manage both short term and long term priorities with project leads and on site staff to ensure operational effectiveness and program milestones are met. • The Proving Grounds manager must effectively plan, manage and project the growth of their teams and resources relative to the overall programs they support. Advocating where required to ensure the technician workforce can meet the demand requirements of engineering and testing as Waymo rapidly expands its mission to be the world's safest driver. You have: • A high level of technical capacity to effectively communicate across multiple stakeholders, support root cause analysis on trending issues impacting fleet performance, commit to the continuous improvement of the resources and fleet broadly across the closed course portfolio, and integrate seamlessly with the Systems Engineering ecosystem. • Workshop management experience. Specifically experience supporting technician teams, testing environments and a deeper understanding of tooling and infrastructure required for successful testing in a proving ground or closed course environment. • Experience supporting rapidly changing testing configurations in software (firmware) and hardware across multiple platforms at the same time. • The ability to pivot re