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Senior Safety Management System (SMS) Risk Integration Specialist
Waymo LLC · 🇺🇸 Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, 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) Risk Integration Specialist role, you will advance how Waymo manages and tracks safety risk across our technology, operations, and organization as part of the Safety Risk Management function of our SMS. Combining a technical risk management background with cross-functional leadership, you will partner with teams across Waymo to assess our risk management practices against safety regulations, solve workflow pain points, and define requirements for risk tools that track hazards and mitigations from identification through verified risk reduction. You will: • Create Enterprise Risk Integration Processes: Design, develop, and implement scalable, repeatable processes and frameworks that synthesize information into a unified view of Automated Driving System safety risk. • Drive Enterprise Risk Tooling Solutions: Define business requirements, data taxonomies, and workflow specifications for enterprise safety risk tooling and partner with tooling teams to build, deploy, and iterate on these solutions. • Enable Closed-Loop Mitigation & Impact Tracking: Establish end-to-end traceability mechanisms to track risk treatments and mitigations across distributed safety methodologies from initial identification through implementation and post-deployment verification of risk-reduction impact. • Lead Regulatory Conformance & Gap Analysis: Evaluate the impact of domestic and international regulations and standards on Waymo’s Safety Risk Management practices, identifying compliance gaps and driving corrective roadmaps. • Harmonize Cross-Functional Risk Workflows: Partner closely with teams to diagnose process inefficiencies, pain points, and blind spots, bringing stakeholders together to align on practical solutions. • Deliver Executive Risk Visibility & Audit Readiness: Develop risk reporting dashboards, safety performance indicators, and executive summaries that equip safety governance committees and leadership with a holistic risk picture, while supporting preparation for external regulatory inspections and audits. You have: • A Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Physical Sciences, or a related scientific or analytic discipline. • Minimum 5 years of experience in System Safety, Functional Safety, or Safety Risk Management within complex, safety-critical industries (such a