Field Safety Engineer

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Participate in investigations into driverless events, employee safety concerns, and other potential issues that could pose risks to the safety of Waymo vehicles, analyzing field data to identify trends.
• Identify opportunities for further offboard field monitoring, then design and build your own monitors, making use of Waymo's latest available AI tools.

Job requirements

• Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field. This role does not require post-doctoral work experience, and recent Ph.D.
• Hands-on experience developing software for data analysis, system modeling, or simulation. Demonstrated ability to independently write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code (e.g., Python, C++) to build reusable…
• Solid grasp of one (and, ideally, multiple) fundamental areas relevant to autonomous vehicle safety including physical system modeling, control theory, vehicle dynamics, sensing, perception, planning, behavior…
• A natural curiosity to explore novel ways of leveraging data to rapidly answer safety questions arising from field events.
• Eagerness to network internally and build relationships across diverse engineering teams to trace issues and collect data.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.