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System Safety Engineer, Strategic Programs & Integration

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, Kirkland, WA, USA

Status

Open

Posted

2026-09-23T23:13:03+00:00

Waymo is hiring a system safety engineer to lead program planning, milestone roadmaps and OKRs across its System Safety organization. The person runs safety workstreams for new vehicle programs spanning onboard software, hardware, systems engineering, operations and product, defines baseline-and-delta safety approaches, tracks readiness criteria across platforms, and reports to executive program leadership. The posting asks for a technical degree, 10+ years in safety-critical program management or safety engineering, familiarity with ISO 26262, SOTIF or MIL-STD-882, and Jira-style workflow tooling. Base pay is $241,000–$297,000.