Vehicle Systems Safety

The Waymo Safety team works to promote and help to continuously improve the safety of Waymo’s fully autonomous driving technology. Our experts develop safety goals and strategies, and conduct safety engineering analyses to ensure safety is being considered throughout the design and development of our vehicles. The team develops and promotes safety strategies and policies for autonomous vehicles for its work with regulatory authorities, lawmakers, law enforcement and public and non-profit organizations. Our Safety Team also helps advise on compliance with applicable environmental, health, and safety regulations.

In this hybrid role, you will report to a Head of Functional Safety

• Support and execute functional safety analyses (e.g., HARA) for base vehicle programs to identify hazards, assess safety risks, and identify safety goals for the vehicle systems.
• Support supplier and OEM safety management activities, including reviewing supplier and OEM safety work products, DIA compliance, and participating in supplier and OEM audits.
• Collaborate with Systems Engineering and HW Engineering to define safety interfaces between the ADS and the base vehicle platform.
• Partner with the Safety team members to improve safety engineering processes for the vehicle and system level activities,  improve our guidelines, manuals, and templates.
• Guide regulatory teams through their vehicle platform certification efforts.
• Participate in cross-functional design reviews as a safety representative, ensuring safety goals and requirements are met throughout the development lifecycle.

• BS or higher in Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or an equivalent technical field.
• 4+ years automotive experience with OEM and or Tier 1 with respect to product development and launch.
• 4+ years of functional safety engineering experience in safety-critical systems, with practical application of the ISO 26262 standard.
• Experience performing safety analyses (HARA, FMEA, FTA) for complex E/E or automotive systems.
• Experience in safety requirements elicitation, definition, and tracing.
• Solid understanding of vehicle systems architecture, systems engineering V-model, and hardware/software interfaces.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with experience working with cross-functional engineering teams.

• Experience with autonomous driving systems (L3/L4) or advanced ADAS.
• Automotive background in product development/design and release engineering.
• Experience in supplier and OEM safety management, including DIA (Development Interface Agreement) definition and tracking.
• Knowledge of advanced safety standards beyond ISO 26262, such as ISO 21448 (SOTIF).
• Experience with hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing, safety validation, or system integration testing.
• Background in data-driven safety analysis or statistical risk assessment.