System Safety Engineer

Summary

Join Waymo's Safety team as a System Safety Engineering Lead and contribute to the safety of Waymo's fully autonomous driving technology. Lead cross-functional efforts to perform safety analyses, identify potential hazards, assess safety risks, and define safety requirements. Participate in design reviews to ensure safety mitigations are addressed. Provide guidance on safety standards and best practices, and ensure compliance with regulations. Evaluate the effectiveness of risk control strategies and identify new hazards. Provide leadership in defining, implementing, and improving System Safety processes. Integrate the System Safety Methodology with other Waymo safety frameworks. This role requires a Bachelor's degree in a related technical field, 10+ years of relevant engineering experience (including 5+ years in System Safety engineering), and proficiency in safety analyses and Systems Engineering principles. A Master's or PhD degree and experience in complex, safety-critical fleet operations are preferred.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical/Mechatronics/Aerospace Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical fields
• Strong technical project management skills with the ability to manage multiple parallel projects
• 10+ years of relevant engineering work experience that includes minimum 5 years of System Safety engineering
• 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
• Extensive background in risk management and aligning risk based decisions with stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional efforts to perform safety analyses and identify potential hazard causes, assess safety risks (qualitatively and quantitatively), support the definition of safety requirements, inform design and operations decisions, and develop mitigations and support verification strategies
• Participate in hardware, software, and operations design and readiness reviews and discussions to help ensure that safety mitigations and requirements are addressed and ensure the safety mitigations are working effectively in the field
• Provide guidance on the adoption and adaptation of relevant safety standards, and industry best practices, and help ensure Waymo and its partners comply with relevant safety regulations
• Evaluates the continued effectiveness of implemented risk control strategies; supports the identification of new hazards
• Provide leadership in defining, implementing, and improving relevant System Safety processes while promoting our safety culture inside Waymo
• Provide leadership in integrating the System Safety Methodology with other methodologies of the Waymo safety framework

Preferred 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

Benefits

• 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
• $196,000 — $248,000 USD