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About the Role
Waymo is seeking a System Safety Engineer to lead cross-functional efforts in performing safety analyses, identifying hazards, assessing risks, and defining safety requirements for autonomous driving technology. This role involves participating in design reviews, providing guidance on safety standards and regulations, and promoting a strong safety culture.
Responsibilities
- Lead cross-functional efforts to perform safety analyses and identify potential hazards and their causes.
- Assess safety risks both qualitatively and quantitatively.
- Support the definition of safety requirements and inform design decisions.
- Propose mitigations and support verification strategies.
- Participate in software and product design and readiness reviews.
- Ensure safety mitigations are addressed and working effectively in the field.
- Provide guidance on the adoption and adaptation of relevant safety standards and industry best practices.
- Help ensure Waymo and its partners comply with relevant safety regulations.
- Evaluate the continued effectiveness of implemented risk control strategies.
- Support the identification of new hazards.
- Provide leadership in defining, implementing, and improving relevant System Safety processes.
- Promote our safety culture inside Waymo.
- Provide leadership in integrating the System Safety Methodology with other methodologies of the Waymo safety framework.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical fields.
- Strong technical project management skills with the ability to manage multiple parallel projects.
- 7+ years of relevant safety engineering work experience.
- Minimum 5 years of System Safety engineering experience.
- Proficient in selecting and performing appropriate inductive/deductive safety analyses to identify hazards and their risk level.
- Proficient in applying Systems Engineering principles, including defining SMART safety mitigations/requirements.
- Collaborate on effective verification and validation methods.
- Extensive background in risk management and aligning risk-based decisions with stakeholders.
- Experience in writing code and performing unit tests.
- Experience analyzing algorithmic structures in C, C++, and Python.
Skills
- System Safety Engineering
- Safety Analysis
- Risk Assessment
- Systems Engineering
- Project Management
- C++
- Python
- C
Location
- US
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 7+ years of relevant safety engineering work experience
- Minimum 5 years of System Safety engineering
Education Level
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical fields
- Master’s degree or PhD in Electrical/Mechatronics/Aerospace Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical fields (preferred)
Salary/Compensations
- $204,000—$252,000 USD
Benefits
- Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
- 401(k) with company match
- 20 days of vacation per year
- 40 hours/year sick time
- 5 days/event sick time
- 28-30 weeks Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding)
- 18 weeks Baby Bonding Leave
- 13 paid holidays per year
- Discretionary annual bonus program
- Equity incentive plan
About the Company
- Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver.
- Started as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009.
- Built the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™.
- Improves access to mobility and aims to save lives lost to traffic crashes.
- The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can be applied to various vehicle platforms and product use cases.
- The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips.
- Driven autonomously over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.
Equal Opportunity
- Waymo is committed to providing a comprehensive benefits package to all eligible US based employees.