CareerPlan

Field Safety Engineer

Mountain View (US-MTV-EMF680)Full-time$170k2026-10-14 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid · United States

Core

Build offboard field monitoring capabilities and analyze field data to ensure the safety of Waymo's autonomous vehicles.

Role type

Senior IC field safety engineer (autonomous driving)

Builds

Proactive offboard field monitors and safety analysis tools

Domain

Autonomous driving / Safety engineering

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Data analysis, system modeling, simulation, physical system modeling, control theory, vehicle dynamics, sensing, perception, planning, behavior prediction, machine learning

Preferred skills

Autonomy or machine learning software experience, statistical data analysis, quantitative risk assessment, reliability engineering, large-scale dataset handling, SQL-like querying, interactive dashboard building

Technologies

Python, C++, SQL

Responsibilities

Investigate driverless events and employee safety concerns, analyze field data to identify trends, design and build offboard field monitors using AI tools

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC