Google's self-driving cars are growing up.

The company's self-driving car project is currently part of X, parent company Alphabet's "moonshot" division of ambitious ventures. Back in October, project head John Krafcik said the venture was close to moving out of the X lab--a process the company refers to as "graduating."

Now the project is looking to hire a head of real estate to help the division do just that. A new job listing, first spotted by Recode, suggests the team is ready to branch off and expand beyond X's Mountain View headquarters.

"Our path forward includes significant growth in both team size and geographical footprint," it reads. It says the hire will "help usher our project into this next chapter."

The self-driving car project has been hiring to other positions recently that would indicate it's moving closer to become a standalone business. In July, it brought on a legal chief to deal with the large amounts of regulation surrounding autonomous driving.

Back in 2015, the project hired Krafcik, the former president and CEO of Hyundai. The move seemed to indicate that Google was preparing to move self-driving cars toward commercialization.

Google's self-driving cars are already in the midst of test pilots in Austin, Phoenix, and Washington state.

While the project does seem to be moving toward a consumer-ready product, it has had its share of setbacks in recent months. In August, it lost its technical lead, Chris Urmson, who had been aboard for seven years. That same month, Jiajun Zhu, the project's principal software engineer, left to found a robotics startup.

Back in January, two employees left to found Otto, a self-driving startup. That company has already outpaced the Google project at least in terms of PR, recently driving a huge shipment of Budweiser 120 miles in an automated tractor trailer. That prompted Google CEO Sundar Pichai to attempt to quell any panic during a company earnings call. "We generally want to encourage a culture of innovation," he said. "It is fine that some of them happen outside. We don't view it as a zero sum game."

If and when the self-driving project branches off from the unit formerly known as Google X, it won't be the first to do so. Augmented reality venture Google Glass began as a Google X endeavor before being spun off as its own division. And Google Brain, the artificial intelligence project that now owns deep learning company DeepMind, got its start in the moonshot lab.