Senior Systems Engineer, Hardware Architecture
Core
Define and analyze the architecture for Waymo's next-generation autonomous driving system, balancing performance, reliability, and cost while ensuring safety-critical fallback mechanisms.
Role type
Senior Systems Architect (Autonomous Driving)
Builds
The Waymo Driver autonomous vehicle platform and its underlying system architecture
Domain
Autonomous driving, robotics, high-reliability systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
Systems architecture, complex system design, trade studies, safety-critical system design, cross-functional collaboration, technical leadership, requirements decomposition, system evolution management
Preferred skills
Functional safety (ISO 26262), SOTIF (ISO 21448), Model-Based Systems Engineering (SysML), reliability engineering (FMEA, FTA, Weibull), performance modeling and simulation
Technologies
SysML, FMEA, FTA, Weibull analysis
Responsibilities
Lead multi-attribute trade studies for system architecture, develop and analyze architectural options for the Self-Driving System, collaborate across diverse engineering teams to drive alignment, define key system interfaces and behaviors, present technical recommendations to senior leadership, decompose architectural decisions into subsystem requirements, manage architectural change across system generations
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with strategic influence