# Field Safety – Operations Performance at Waymo

- Company: Waymo
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://waymo.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Mountain View, CA, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-10
- Apply by: 2026-10-25
- Apply: https://careers.withwaymo.com/jobs?gh_jid=8187386
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/waymo-field-safety-operations-performance/

## 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

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