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Satish Jeyachandran

Vice President, Engineering, Waymo

  • Vice President, Engineering, Waymo12

Satish Jeyachandran is Vice President of Engineering at Waymo, where Jeyachandran leads the hardware organization that designs and scales the autonomous driving system's lidar, radar, cameras and compute. Before Waymo, Jeyachandran spent seven years at Tesla heading the hardware team for the company's infotainment and Autopilot systems.1

At a glance

Current role
Vice President, Engineering
Company
Waymo
Sector
Company
Work listed
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Sources cited
2
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Career

Jeyachandran has close to two decades of experience in hardware development and in scaling products in the automotive industry. Before joining Waymo, Jeyachandran spent seven years at Tesla, heading the hardware team responsible for the infotainment and Autopilot systems.1

As Vice President of Engineering at Waymo, Jeyachandran leads the hardware organization responsible for lidar, radar, cameras and compute in Waymo's autonomous driving system, and for integrating that system into different vehicle platforms.12

Work and contributions

  • Waymo Driver hardware Proprietary product

    Leads the organization that designs and scales the Waymo Driver's sensors and compute, and integrates the system into different vehicle platforms.1

Other documented roles

Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.

  • Led the hardware team for infotainment and Autopilot systems (seven years), Tesla1

Where they work

  • Waymo 4 people in the wiki

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References

2 sources · profile reviewed Oct 22, 2026 · data updated Oct 22, 2026

  1. Satish Jeyachandran, Vice President, Engineering — Waymo leadershipWaymo · Official page · accessed Oct 22, 2026
  2. Waymo — About, leadership teamWaymo · Official page · accessed Oct 22, 2026