Staff Software Quality Safety Operations Specialist
Core
Design and implement automated ML workflows and human-in-the-loop systems to triage safety events, detect edge cases, and ensure the reliability of the Waymo Driver for autonomous ride-hail.
Role type
Staff Software Quality Safety Operations Specialist (ML Ops)
Builds
Automated safety triage pipelines, human feedback generation systems, and ML validation frameworks for autonomous driving.
Domain
Autonomous Vehicles / Machine Learning Operations
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
ML lifecycle management, human-in-the-loop system design, safety event triage, statistical performance evaluation, edge-case testing, policy development, strategic roadmap planning
Preferred skills
LLM/transformer models, robotics ML, SQL querying, offshore team management
Technologies
Generative AI, ML frameworks, proprietary AV tools
Responsibilities
Decompose complex safety triage workflows and apply ML for automation; Define requirements for high-quality human feedback to optimize ML models; Partner with Engineering to deploy ML/Gen-AI tools for issue detection; Proactively identify emerging risk scenarios using AI insights; Author technical policies and strategic roadmaps for scaling operations; Advise senior stakeholders on long-term technical strategy.
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic mentorship