Ex-Google Self-Driving Car Engineer Made More Than $120 Million
- Compensation revealed as part of Waymo-Uber court fight
- Waymo alleges its technology for autonomous vehicles was taken
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A former Google engineer at the center of a fight over self-driving car technology made more than $120 million, according to a legal filing Monday, highlighting the intense competition among tech companies and carmakers for talent in the nascent sector.
The autonomous vehicle unit, now called Waymo, claimed in an arbitration demand against the former employee, Anthony Levandowski, that he breached his contract by recruiting from its ranks for his rival company, Otto, -- while collecting more than $120 million in incentive payments from the search giant.