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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