Crashworthiness Engineer - Remote

Overview

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the 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 One, a fully autonomous ride-hailing service, and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over one million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving tens of millions of miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 13+ U.S. states.

In Short

• Interact with internal design teams and OEM partners for crashworthiness evaluations.
• Develop detailed crashworthiness models and optimize them for performance.
• Utilize FEA solvers like LS-Dyna for pedestrian protection applications.
• Explore new CAE modeling techniques and collaborate on simulation capabilities.
• Perform structural design optimizations for durability.

Requirements

• Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering with 12 years of experience or Bachelor's Degree with 15 years of experience.
• Expertise in nonlinear analysis and crashworthiness evaluations using LS-Dyna.
• Experience with linear dynamics and implicit solvers like Abaqus.
• Knowledge of safety standards for crashworthiness evaluations.
• Expertise in model building with Hypermesh and LS-PrePost.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and eligibility for annual bonus program.
• Participation in equity incentive plan.
• Generous company benefits program.