Waymo · 15 hours ago
System Safety Engineer - Onboard SW / SOTIF
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$196K/yr - $248K/yr
10+ years expWaymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. The System Safety Engineer will lead cross-functional safety analyses, assess risks, and support safety requirements to ensure the safety of Waymo's autonomous driving technology.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesSensorTransportation
Responsibilities
Lead cross-functional efforts to perform safety analyses and identify potential hazard and their causes, assess safety risks (qualitatively and quantitatively), support the definition of safety requirements, inform design decisions, propose mitigations, and support verification strategies
Participate in software, and product 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
Qualification
Required
Bachelor of Science in 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 safety 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
Experience in writing code and performing unit tests as well as analyzing algorithmic structures in C, C++, and Python
Preferred
A Master's degree or PhD in Electrical/Mechatronics/Aerospace Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical fields
Experience in conducting safety analysis and risk assessments on SAE L3+ Perception and Behavior/Planner software
Benefits
Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program
Equity incentive plan
Generous Company benefits program
Company
Waymo
Waymo is a mobility technology company that improves transportation by developing self-driving solutions for travelers and daily commuters. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$11.1BKey Investors
Alphabet
2024-07-23Series C· $5.6B
2021-06-16Series B· $2.5B
2020-05-12Series A· $750M
Leadership Team
Tekedra Mawakana
Co-Chief Executive Officer
Annabel Chang
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