Field Safety Lead

The Waymo Safety team works to promote and help to 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. The team develops and promotes safety strategies and policies for autonomous vehicles for its work with regulatory authorities, lawmakers, law enforcement and public and non-profit organizations. Our Safety Team also helps advise on compliance with applicable environmental, health, and safety regulations.

You will report to the Director of Safety and Incident Management and be based remotely in the United States.

You will:

• Lead cross-functional teams in identifying, analyzing, and mitigating issues that may affect the safety of Waymo's active operations. Lead meetings of Waymo's Field Safety Committee to discuss your findings and provide recommendations to senior leadership including CEOs.
• Identify opportunities to further improve Waymo's Field Safety processes and deliver on your plans while maintaining alignment with Waymo's Safety Case.
• Address regulatory inquiries and aid in internal safety investigations.
• Participate in the Safety On-Call rotation for one week out of every approximately six weeks

You have:

• 10+ years of experience analyzing technology-related safety risks, including ability to quickly identify main issues and bound likelihood and severity.
• Experience leading programs, that involve ad hoc cross-functional teams.
• Comfort analyzing data, creating data dashboards
• Regulatory awareness

We prefer:

• Knowledge of AV technology fundamentals
• Experience working with ML or other AI
• Experience working with regulators

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