Waymo
Staff Software Quality Safety Operations Specialist
$190K–$234K
Mountain View, CA, United States +2 · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 14, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA, United States
Remote, United States
Remote, USA - Experience
- 7+ years of relevant work experience as an alternative to a BS/BA degree.
- Education
- BS/BA degree or 7+ years of relevant work experience.
About the job
Leads safety triage operations and develops ML-enabled workflows, data, and standards to evaluate the Waymo Driver and scale its safe deployment.
What you'll do
- Develop scalable safety-triage workflows and automation using operational and ML techniques.
- Partner with Engineering on ML and generative AI tools for issue detection, triage, and quality assurance; use their outputs to identify risks and edge cases.
- Define operational policies, technical standards, roadmaps, and processes, and advise stakeholders on strategy.
What they ask for
- BS/BA degree or 7+ years of relevant work experience in AV Software Quality Operations / ML Operations.
- Experience managing complex technical projects and working across technical partners.
- Competency supporting the machine learning development lifecycle, from data preparation and training through validation, deployment, and monitoring.
- Experience with ML testing and validation, including dataset quality assurance, bias detection, edge-case testing, and statistical performance evaluation.
Nice to have
- Undergraduate technical degree; experience within A / V space.
- Competency in LLM / transformer models, ML for robotics, SQL querying / data analysis, or working with offshore teams / multiple local operations hubs.
Pay
$190,000 — $234,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Machine Learning (ML), Generative AI (Gen-AI), LLM / transformer models, SQL
AI focus
Develops and operationalizes ML and generative AI for safety triage, issue discovery, human-in-the-loop feedback, and quality assurance; supports an automated ML development flywheel.
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