What are the responsibilities and job description for the Functional Safety Lead, Silicon position at Waymo?
Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the 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 One, a fully autonomous ride-hailing service, and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over one million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving tens of millions of miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 13 U.S. states.
Waymo's Compute Team is tasked with a critical and exciting mission: We deliver the compute platform responsible for running the fully autonomous vehicle's software stack. To achieve our mission, we architect and create high-performance custom silicon; we develop system-level compute architectures that push the boundaries of performance, power, and latency; and we collaborate closely with many other teammates to ensure we design and optimize hardware and software for maximum performance. We are a multidisciplinary team seeking curious and talented teammates to work on one of the world's highest performance automotive compute platforms.
You will:
- Lead Functional Safety activities, development methodology, and assessments for custom automotive silicon
- Collaborate with the safety team, engineers, and external partner teams to ensure state-of-the-art practices and processes are adopted
- Architect creative solutions
You have:
- MS or higher in Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent
- 8 years technical experience in Functional Safety for automotive
- Complete understanding of automotive standards (e.g. ISO26262) and application to silicon product life cycle
- Leadership experience of in-house and partner teams
- Hands-on experience with safety management tools, fault metric analysis, FMEDAs, and implementation of safety mechanisms
We prefer:
- Experience with reliability and quality standards (e.g. AEC-Q100 or IATF 16949)
- Experience with advanced silicon nodes and complex software stacks
- Experience collaborating with vehicle OEMs
- Tool scripting and automation
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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 : $226,000 - $286,000
