Senior System Safety Engineer, Operations & Fleet Response

About the role

The Safety Team within Waymo is seeking a Safety Engineer to lead cross-functional safety analyses as a subject matter expert. This role will involve identifying hazards, assessing risks, defining requirements, driving mitigation and verification strategies, and informing decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional safety analyses as subject matter expert to identify hazards, assess risks, define requirements, drive mitigation and verification strategies, and inform decisions.
• Participate in operations design and readiness reviews and present safety risk to ELT.
• Evaluate the continued effectiveness of implemented mitigations to ensure risk profile have not changed; if safety risk has changed, support the identification of new hazards & mitigations.
• Solve challenging and ambiguous problems with long time horizons, helping teammates navigate "uncharted territory" in safety engineering.
• Articulate and influence new safety approaches to stakeholders across Product, Legal, Systems Engineering, and Operations.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical/Mechatronics/Aerospace Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical fields.
• 10+ years of relevant engineering work experience that includes minimum 7 years of System Safety engineering.
• Strong technical project management skills with the ability to manage multiple parallel projects.
• Proficient in selecting and performing appropriate inductive/deductive safety analyses in order to efficiently identify hazards and their level of risk.
• Proficient in applying Systems Engineering principles including defining SMART safety mitigations/requirements and collaborating on effective verification and validation methods.

Qualifications

• A Master’s degree or PhD in Electrical/Mechatronics/Aerospace Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical fields.
• Experience in complex, safety critical fleet operations and the impact to hardware, software, and systems design.
• Provide guidance on relevant safety standards and industry best practices.
• Experience in optimizing safety management systems and processes.

Skills

• Travel Ability to travel approximately 5% of the time.

Benefits

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retail Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (statutory, where applicable); 5 days/event (discretionary)
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Pay

The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level.

Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process.

Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.

Salary Range $241,000—$297,000 USD