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Senior System Safety Engineer, Operations & Fleet Response

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 Experi

Company

Waymo

Location

Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Seattle, WA, USA

Status

Open

Posted

2026-03-30T18:16:21+00:00

Waymo's Safety team is hiring a senior system safety engineer to lead cross-functional safety analyses for its autonomous driving technology: identifying hazards, assessing risk, defining requirements, and driving mitigation and verification strategies. The person also joins operations design and readiness reviews and presents safety risk to leadership. The posting asks for a technical bachelor's degree, 10+ years' engineering experience with at least seven in system safety, and proficiency in inductive and deductive analyses and systems engineering. It prefers experience in safety-critical fleet operations.