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About the Role

Waymo is seeking a Safety Engineer to join the Risk Management team. This hybrid role focuses on architecting best practices for risk assessment methodologies, collaborating with domain experts, and championing a robust safety culture to improve the safety of Waymo's autonomous driving technology.

Responsibilities

• Architect best practices for risk assessment methodologies, including publishing internal guidance on risk model, data sources and computation methods.
• Collaborate with domain experts to build robust risk assessments with sustainable overhead for execution and flexibility in the face of an expanding product scope.
• Work with domain experts to define test coverage needed to support ongoing risk assessments with regression protection and field monitoring.
• Connect with stakeholders, learn their pain points, and work to unblock barriers to scale.
• Streamline rate limiting processes, automate repetitive tasks, and develop tools to enable future projects.
• Familiarize yourself with tools available inside and outside the team/company/industry to unlock increased scale without compromising on rigor.
• Champion and promote a robust safety culture and the continuous improvement of the Waymo safety program across the engineering and operations organizations.

Requirements

• An advanced degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering or other relevant technical field OR 4 years of practical experience involving safety risk assessments and quantitative statistical methods.
• Experience in software engineering for simulation and data evaluation, using Python or other high level language (e.g. SQL, R, C++).
• Direct experience developing risk models, sourcing and validating data, and using findings to make decisions/recommendations.
• Strong foundation in the process of risk management, including the end-to-end lifecycle of risk: identification, assessment, mitigation and acceptance of risk (e.g. following ISO 31000 or equivalent standards).
• Comprehensive understanding of safety critical system designs and the systems engineering “Verification and Validation” process.
• Demonstrated technical project management skills with the ability to effectively manage multiple parallel, cross-functional safety-critical projects and teams.
• Ability to thrive in ambiguity.

Skills

• Python
• SQL
• R
• C++
• Data science
• Statistics
• Data pipelines
• Software engineering
• Risk management
• Quantitative risk assessment

Location

• Remote

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Full-time

Experience Level

• Advanced degree or 4 years of practical experience

Education Level

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering or other relevant technical field

Salary/Compensations

• $204,000—$252,000 USD

Benefits

• Discretionary annual bonus program
• Equity incentive plan
• Generous Company benefits program

About the Company

• Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver.
• Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes.
• The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases.
• The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.
• The Waymo Safety team works to promote and help to continuously improve the safety of Waymo’s fully autonomous driving technology.
• Our experts develop safety goals and strategies, and conduct safety engineering analyses to ensure safety is being considered throughout the design and development of our vehicles.
• The team develops and promotes safety strategies and policies for autonomous vehicles for its work with regulatory authorities, lawmakers, law enforcement and public and non-profit organizations.
• Our Safety Team also helps advise on compliance with applicable environmental, health, and safety regulations.

Equal Opportunity

• Waymo may not be able to employ remotely in all locations. Please speak with your recruiter about your preferred location for remote work when you begin the interview process.