System Safety Engineer - 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 and support the definition of safety requirements.
• Participate in hardware, software, and operations/product design and readiness reviews.
• Provide guidance on the adoption of relevant safety standards and ensure compliance.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of implemented risk control strategies.
• Define, implement, and improve System Safety processes.
• Integrate System Safety Methodology with other methodologies.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in relevant engineering fields.
• Strong technical project management skills.
• 10+ years of relevant engineering experience, including 5 years in System Safety engineering.
• Proficient in safety analyses and risk identification.
• Experience with Systems Engineering principles.
• Background in risk management.

Benefits

• Participation in annual bonus program.
• Equity incentive plan.
• Generous company benefits program.