Waymo
Senior Staff Regulatory and Compliance Systems Engineer
$272K–$336K
Mountain View, CA, USA +3 · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted May 18, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA, USA
San Francisco, CA, USA
Mountain View, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 10+ years driving new product adoption.
About the job
Provides technical leadership for generating regulatory safety evidence, implementing functional safety requirements, and supporting Waymo’s compliance and international market-entry efforts.
What you'll do
- Set strategy for regulatory evidence generation and drive implementation of functional safety requirements across platform systems.
- Compare internal safety methods and data with external requirements, identify gaps, and map evidence to international standards and approval processes.
- Represent technical teams to regulators and guide documentation design and supporting data-pipeline strategy.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of experience driving new product adoption, ideally in safety-critical industries.
- Deep knowledge of system architectures and the full lifecycle of designing, developing, testing, and deploying safety-critical systems.
- Ability to translate regulatory requests into engineering requirements and data schemas, and to extract and process data from massive, distributed relational/non-relational databases.
- Experience translating regulatory, compliance, or international technical safety standards into engineering requirements; deep understanding of the international regulatory environment.
Nice to have
- Experience engineering compliance data or safety-evidence pipelines in autonomous driving, aerospace, robotics, or medical devices.
- Experience with international market entry or type approval for a complex safety-critical product, or building automated compliance-reporting tools.
Pay
USD 272,000–336,000 base salary
Tools
ISO 26262, ISO 21448/SOTIF, UL 4600
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