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Senior Staff Regulatory and Compliance Systems Engineer

Waymo
Mountain View, USAfull_timePosted 26 Aug 2026

About the role

<div class="content-intro"><p>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.</p></div><p data-pm-slice="1 1 []">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.</p> <p><em>This role follows a hybrid work schedule and you will report directly into Systems Engineering Leadership.</em></p> <p><strong>You will:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Provide technical thought leadership and will be consistently called upon in setting (scalable) strategy for (technical but regulatory) evidence generation.</li> <li>Drive the implementation of functional safety requirements across platform systems and lower-level fault response frameworks</li> <li>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</li> <li>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</li> <li>Represent&nbsp; technical teams and concepts accurately and consistently with regulators</li> <li>Duties will involve both the design of documentation and the strategy to support data pipelines that would populate the data for said documents</li> </ul> <p><strong>You have:</strong></p> <ul> <li>10+ years of experience driving new product adoption, ideally in safety-

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