Drimva

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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First seen Oct 10, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)