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Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver™-to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.\nThe Waymo Safety team works to promote and help to continuously improve the safety of Waymo's fully autonomous driving technology. Our experts develop safety goals and strategies, and conduct safety engineering analyses to ensure safety is being considered throughout the design and development of our vehicles. 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Our Safety Team also helps advise on compliance with applicable environmental, health, and safety regulations.\nIn this hybrid role, you will report into one of our System Safety Leads.\nYou will:\nLead cross-functional efforts to perform safety analyses and identify potential hazard and their causes, assess safety risks (qualitatively and quantitatively), support the definition of safety requirements, inform design decisions, propose mitigations, and support verification strategies\nParticipate in hardware, software, and operations design and readiness reviews and discussions to help ensure that safety mitigations and requirements are addressed and ensure the safety mitigations are working effectively in the field \nProvide guidance on the adoption and adaptation of relevant safety standards, and industry best practices, and help ensure Waymo and its partners comply with relevant safety regulations\nEvaluates the continued effectiveness of implemented risk control strategies; supports the identification of new hazards\nProvide leadership in defining, implementing, and improving relevant System Safety processes while promoting our safety culture inside Waymo\nProvide leadership in integrating the System Safety Methodology with other methodologies of the Waymo safety framewor\nYou have:\nBachelor of Science in Electrical/Mechatronics/Aerospace Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical fields\nStrong technical project management skills with the ability to manage multiple parallel projects \n7+ years of relevant engineering work experience that includes minimum 5 years of System Safety engineering\nProficient in selecting and performing appropriate inductive/deductive safety analyses in order to efficiently identify hazards and their level of risk \nProficient in applying Systems Engineering principles including defining SMART safety mitigations/requirements and collaborating on effective verification and validation methods\nExtensive background in risk management and aligning risk based decisions with stakeholders\nWe prefer:\nA Master’s degree or PhD in Electrical/Mechatronics/Aerospace Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical fields\nExperience in complex, safety critical fleet operations and the impact to hardware, software, and systems design\nTravel: \nAbility to travel approximately 5% of the time\nIn accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. 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