Waymo
Field Safety – Operations Performance
$241K–$297K
Mountain View, CA, USA +3 · Full-time · Posted Sep 10, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA, USA
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Mountain View, California, United States
Playa Vista, California, United States - Experience
- 10+ years.
- Education
- M.S. in Human Factors, Industrial Engineering, Organizational Psychology, Cognitive Science, or a related degree.
About the job
Leads operational safety performance by investigating field events and driving safety improvements across human-in-the-loop driving operations, testing, and depot environments.
What you'll do
- Lead investigations into complex field events involving human-system interactions and drive process and system enhancements.
- Define and govern safety requirements and standards for human drivers and vehicle operators, including fatigue and distraction risk mitigations.
- Analyze field data for ongoing safety learning and promote a just safety culture.
What they ask for
- M.S. in Human Factors, Industrial Engineering, Organizational Psychology, Cognitive Science, or a related degree.
- 10+ years of safety experience involving human-system interaction and complex socio-technical systems.
- Expertise applying human factors engineering and HOP principles to incident investigations and risk control design.
- Self-motivated and able to collaborate cross-functionally.
Nice to have
- Ph.D. in a related field.
- Experience with Fatigue Risk Management and/or human performance in automated driving or teleoperations.
Pay
$241,000 — $297,000 USD (base salary)
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