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Field Safety – Operations Performance

Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA · Mountain View (US-MTV-EMF690) · Playa Vista (US-PLV-BLUFFS)

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Roboticsonsitesenior$241k–$297k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Own Operations Performance for Field Safety in autonomous operations.
  • Lead deep-dive investigations into complex human-system field events.
  • Define enterprise safety standards for human drivers and operators.

What they offer

  • Discretionary annual bonus program
  • Equity incentive plan
  • Generous Company benefits program

Ideal candidate

Seasoned safety leader with deep human factors expertise who thrives on systems thinking and cross-functional collaboration to advance just culture and safer human-in-the-loop autonomous operations.

Requirements

  • M.S. in Human Factors, Industrial Engineering, Organizational Psychology, Cognitive Science, or related degree
  • 10+ years experience with safety involving human-system interaction and complex socio-technical systems
  • Demonstrated expertise applying human factors engineering and HOP principles to incident investigations and risk control design
  • Self-motivated and eager for cross-functional collaboration
  • Ph.D. in Human Factors, Organizational Psychology, Industrial Engineering, Cognitive Science, or related degree (preferred)
  • Experience with Fatigue Risk Management and/or human performance in automated driving or teleoperations (preferred)
remote policy
hybrid work schedule

Lab profile

About Waymo

Autonomous driving technology company building the Waymo Driver for fully autonomous ride-hailing.

What they build

  • Waymo Driver
  • Fully autonomous ride-hail service

Known for

  • Large-scale driving simulation
  • Simulation realism
  • Quantitative evaluations
  • Onboard autonomy models

Key facts

  • Founded in 2009
  • Started as the Google Self-Driving Car Project
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