Drimva

Waymo

Product Safety Engineer

$204K–$252K

Mountain View CA USA +3 · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026

Location
Mountain View CA USA
San Francisco CA USA
Mountain View, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States
Experience
4 years of practical experience involving safety risk assessments and systems engineering as an alternative to an advanced degree; no other years specified.
Education
Advanced degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering, or another relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience (4 years involving safety risk assessments and systems engineering).

About the job

Manages non-collision product safety risks for autonomous vehicles, from assessment and mitigation through acceptance, and develops safety evaluation and monitoring practices.

What you'll do

  • Partner with systems, hardware, software, and operations experts to assess product risks and develop mitigations.
  • Write safety requirements and test coverage, identify field-monitoring KPIs, and establish evaluation frameworks and acceptance criteria.
  • Translate risk analyses into actionable safety arguments and promote continuous improvement of the safety program.

What they ask for

  • Advanced degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering, or another relevant technical field, or 4 years of practical experience involving safety risk assessments and systems engineering.
  • Experience managing product risk for physical products or services using quantitative or semi-quantitative risk models.
  • Knowledge of end-to-end risk management and safety-critical system design, including Verification and Validation.
  • Technical project management skills for multiple parallel, cross-functional safety-critical projects.

Nice to have

  • Product safety experience spanning physical product design, human-machine interfaces, and services.
  • System safety risk management experience in autonomous vehicles, aerospace, defense, robotics, rail, or medical devices.

Pay

$204,000 — $252,000 USD (base salary)

Tools

ISO 31000/31010

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First seen Oct 22, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)