TECH - Tesla FSD Team Gets A Boost As Waymo Engineering Manager Jumps Ships To Join Elon Musk-Led EV Maker | Benzinga
Waymo staff research scientist and tech lead manager Charles Ruizhongtai Qi took to Linkedin on Friday to announce that he would be joining EV giant Tesla Inc‘s (NASDAQ:TSLA) Autopilot team to work on its full self-driving software. As per his LinkedIn profile, Qi has been employed at Waymo since October 2019 and has completed over 4 years at the Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) autonomous driving tech unit.
What Happened: In his post on LinkedIn, Qi said that he was offered a job at both Waymo and Tesla in 2019 but chose to join Waymo despite Tesla being one of his top choices ...