Safety Engineer

We’re looking for a Safety Engineer who will work alongside our team which has deep software engineering expertise from launching fully driverless cars and trucks on the freeway and urban streets at Waymo. In this role, you will help define and implement our safety strategy, develop robust risk assessment methodologies, and drive regulatory certification efforts. This role is central to ensuring our automated construction machinery meets industry-leading safety standards while maintaining high performance and usability. You’ll work closely with the engineering and testing team and your role involves participating in the safety strategy, defining safety requirements and working with the system engineering team to implement and qualify those requirements.

Ideal candidates are tenured safety professionals with engineering backgrounds (and ideally at least started out building). You should have a working knowledge of robotics and safety standards (ISO 13849, IEC 61508, ISO 10218, etc.), and have experience conducting safety analyses (e.g., FMEA and HARA). Our system will operate in close proximity to people, vehicles, and infrastructure. You will drive the safety design and framework.