System Safety Engineer

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October 29

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Waymo

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Transport • Artificial Intelligence • Autonomous Vehicles

Waymo is a pioneering autonomous ride-hailing service aiming to revolutionize transportation by making it safer, more accessible, and sustainable. Operating in multiple cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix, Waymo offers the world's first driverless ride-hailing service, Waymo One, which utilizes advanced autonomous technology. Their mission is to create safer roads and provide inclusive mobility, ensuring that transportation is consistent and convenient for all, with a strong emphasis on safety and sustainability. Waymo's autonomous technology, known as the Waymo Driver, is designed to offer a new level of freedom in transportation, reducing the dependency on human-driven cars.

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2016

🚗 Transport

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 $2.5G Private Equity Round on 2021-06

📋 Description

• 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 hardware, software, and operations/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

🎯 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.

🏖️ Benefits

• Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program • Equity incentive plan • Generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements