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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.\nAs part of Waymo's Legal team, you will work on the exciting legal issues surrounding our transformational autonomous driving technology and help drive our business lines forward from technology ideation through scaled commercial deployment. We partner with our public policy, safety, security and privacy experts to define transportation policy for the autonomous driving world to come, advising on regulatory changes that support and protect our users around the world. We collaborate with our engineering, product, strategy and operations teams to develop and protect our intellectual property portfolio and drive our corporate and commercial transactions. We ensure compliance with an increasingly complex and dynamic range of global regulations. And we anticipate, mitigate, and litigate high-profile and precedent-setting legal matters.\nThis role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to the Head of Risk and Insurance\nYou will:\nDrive End-to-End Actuarial Analyses: Take full ownership of end-to-end analyses-from data gathering, cleansing, and modeling to delivering actionable presentations-managing projects from framing through to impact with minimal oversight.\nAdvance Pricing & Reserving Models: Independently build, maintain, and refine commercial auto pricing and reserving models to quantify expected losses and support Waymo's insurance and risk-financing strategies.\nChampion Automation & AI Tooling: Proactively modernize and automate actuarial workflows, adopting AI-assisted coding, analytical tools, and programmatic data pipelines to scale team leverage.\nQuantify Autonomous Driving Risks: Develop innovative quantitative metrics and methodologies to quantify novel risks and benchmark the safety performance of the Waymo Driver.\nBuild Scalable Data Pipelines: Extract, curate, and cleanse large, complex datasets from internal and external sources using scripting languages such as R, Python, and SQL.\nCollaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner closely with Safety, Engineering, Product, Legal, and Finance to translate complex business and technical questions into tractable actuarial problems and deliver clear risk insights.\nInstitutionalize Best Practices: Establish reproducible modeling standards, document automated pipelines, and mentor teammates on modern actuarial and technical practices.\nYou have:\nFCAS (Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society) strongly preferred. 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