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Senior Safety Management System (SMS) Analytics Specialist
Waymo LLC · 🇺🇸 San Francisco, CA, USA, Mountain View, CA, USA
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 290 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 87 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Waymo LLC paid sponsored hires in similar roles4 certified filings for “Engineering Operations Technical Specialist” (Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers) in CA: $125k–$152k, median $125k. Most were filed at wage level I (75%) — 1 lottery entry, ≈15% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 290 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 87 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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. The Waymo Safety team works to promote and help to continuously improve the safety of Waymo’s fully autonomous driving technology. Our experts develop safety goals and strategies, and conduct safety engineering analyses to ensure safety is being considered throughout the design and development of our vehicles. The team develops and promotes safety strategies and policies for autonomous vehicles for its work with regulatory authorities, lawmakers, law enforcement and public and non-profit organizations. Our Safety Team also helps advise on compliance with applicable environmental, health, and safety regulations. This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to the Safety Management System Lead. In the Senior Safety Management System (SMS) Analytics Specialist role, you will lead how Waymo measures and reports on the performance of its Safety Management System. This role sits at the intersection of data analytics and executive governance: you will develop and synthesize reliable metrics across our safety processes, increase awareness and understanding of SMS performance data, and translate complex trends into recommendations for senior leaders. When metrics highlight areas for improvement, you will partner across teams to ensure owners are assigned and solutions deliver measurable results. In this role, your work will directly drive continual improvement across Waymo’s safety programs. You will: • Develop Reliable Safety Performance Indicators: Design and refine SMS implementation, maturity, and effectiveness metrics grounded in industry best practices and international safety standards, assessing and maintaining metric quality and advising teams and leaders on proper metric interpretation and use. • Map & Synthesize Multi-Domain Safety Management Metrics: Collect, quality-assure, and synthesize quantitative and qualitative metrics across multiple business functions and trace them to the company’s top-line safety objectives. • Run SMS Performance Reporting Governance: Lead the processes and analytics workflows used to support executive leadership review of SMS performance data and aggregated trend analyses. • Translate Signals into Executive Decision Material: Partner with data science, operational, and safety teams across Waymo to distill complex multi-source data into clear, decision-oriented briefings, dashboards, and continual-improvement recommendations for senior leaders. • Drive Closed-Loop Action & Effectiveness Tracking: Monitor safety performance indicators against targets and thresholds; where indicators show adverse trends or fall short of targets, confirm an accountable owner is assigned and track action items through to verified closure and confirmed effectiveness. • Scale Analytics Tooling & Audit Readiness: Define requirements for data collection, visualization, and reporting tools that improve the reliability and scalability of SMS performance measurement, and support preparation for domestic and international regulatory audits and evaluations. You have: • A Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science,