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Field Safety – Operations Performance

Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA · On-site

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About Waymo

Waymo—formerly the Google self-driving car project—makes it safe and easy for people & things to get around with autonomous vehicles. Take a ride now. Backed by Bessemer, Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia.

About the role

We are seeking an experienced safety leader to own Operations Performance on Waymo’s Field Safety team. In this role, you will engage on high-consequence issues affecting Waymo’s frontline human-in-the-loop operations. Applying systems thinking, your human factors expertise, and Human & Organizational Performance (HOP) principles, you will collaborate to identify and drive safety enhancements across autonomous and manual driving operations, testing programs, and depot environments.

What they're looking for

  • M.S. in Human Factors, Industrial Engineering, Organizational Psychology, Cognitive Science, or a related degree
  • 10+ years experience with safety involving human-system interaction and complex socio-technical systems (e.g. autonomous systems, transportation, aerospace, robotics, or defense)
  • Demonstrated expertise applying human factors engineering and HOP principles to incident investigations and risk control design
  • Self-motivated and eager for cross-functional collaboration
More about this role

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. 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.

The 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. 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...

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