System Safety Engineer - Onboard Software / SOTIF - Remote

Overview

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.

In Short

• Lead cross-functional efforts to perform safety analyses and identify potential hazards and their causes.
• Assess safety risks 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 reviews.
• Provide guidance on safety standards and compliance.
• Evaluate risk control strategies and identify new hazards.
• Define and implement System Safety processes.
• Integrate System Safety Methodology with other safety frameworks.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related fields.
• 10+ years of relevant safety engineering experience, with at least 5 years in System Safety engineering.
• Strong project management skills.
• Proficient in safety analyses and risk assessment.
• Experience in writing code in C, C++, and Python.

Benefits

• Participation in annual bonus program and equity incentive plan.
• Generous Company benefits program.