Senior Staff Regulatory and Compliance Systems Engineer

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.

Waymo's Systems Engineering team works together to blend software and hardware systems in groundbreaking new ways. We set the high performance standards that ensure our vehicles run smoothly and keep passengers safe, then design and perform the tests that validate that performance. We're looking for talented teammates who’ll help us maintain strong teamwork and are passionate about driving results.

This role follows a hybrid work schedule and you will report directly into Systems Engineering Leadership.

You will:

• Provide technical thought leadership and will be consistently called upon in setting (scalable) strategy for (technical but regulatory) evidence generation.

• Drive the implementation of functional safety requirements across platform systems and lower-level fault response frameworks

• Deeply understand Waymo’s safety framework methodologies, safety data, and internal processes, and square them against external requirements to spot gaps and opportunities. Bring your technical expertise and judgement to bear on which are the highest ROI activities for Waymo to pursue. Topics may include: ODD coverage, behavioral competencies definition and testing strategy, argumentation for safety in relation to "discovery" and uncertainty management, and other topics related to behavioral safety

• Contribute to international market entry strategy by mapping internal behavioral data and safety methodologies to international standards (e.g., UNECE requirements and Type Approval processes) to close compliance gaps

• Represent  technical teams and concepts accurately and consistently with regulators

• Duties will involve both the design of documentation and the strategy to support data pipelines that would populate the data for said documents

You have:

• 10+ years of experience driving new product adoption, ideally in safety-critical industries

• Deep knowledge of system architectures and full the lifecycle of design, development, testing, and deployment of safety critical systems. This technical expertise need not be in autonomous vehicles, but preferably in systems of similar levels of complexity

• Demonstrated capability to interface with core software/data engineering teams, acting as a translator to turn ambiguous, external regulatory requests into concrete engineering requirements and data schemas

• Proven ability to extract and process data from massive, distributed relational/non-relational databases

• Proven experience translating complex regulatory, compliance or international technical safety standards  (e.g., ISO 26262, ISO 21448/SOTIF, UL 4600) into concrete engineering requirements

• Deep understanding of the international regulatory environment

We prefer:

• Prior experience engineering compliance data or safety evidence pipelines within autonomous driving (ADS), aerospace, robotics, or medical device industries

• Experience successfully driving a highly complex, safety-critical product through a new international market entry or type approval process

• An engineering background with a deep understanding of how Autonomous Driving Systems (ADS) or systems of similar complexity are structurally architected

• Fluency of technical safety standards or validation concepts (e.g., ISO 26262, ISO 21448/SOTIF, UL 4600, or international automotive homologation data structures)

• Experience building automated, verifiable reporting tools that programmatically populate compliance documentation or safety case repositories

Travel:

• Up to 10% International travel to potential future Waymo Markets

The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process.

Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.

Salary Range
$272,000 — $336,000 USD