Senior Seating and Restraints Architecture Engineer
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Overview
Waymo is seeking a Senior Seating and Restraints Architecture Engineer to lead the development of unique seating systems for ride-hailing vehicles, focusing on comfort and safety. This hybrid role involves collaboration with suppliers and OEMs. 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. Hardware Engineering is a diverse, innovative, and collaborative group of electrical, mechanical, reliability, software and vehicle engineers. We design, build, and perfect the products which are the eyes and ears of Waymo's autonomous driving technology, and integrate those products into vehicle platforms.
What you'll do
- •Work with suppliers and partner OEMs along with Waymo’s Product and ID teams to lead the concept and architecture development of unique seating systems optimized for ride hailing vehicles.
- •Set comfort targets and work on novel seat comfort concepts to achieve these targets.
- •Benchmark competitor vehicles to validate comfort targets.
- •Support the optimization of ingress/egress for a highly diverse demographic across novel cabin topologies.
- •Lead the concept development of restraint systems for unique cabin configurations.
- •Support the development and execution of user clinics designed to optimize seat and restraint comfort for ride hailing.
Conditions
- •Global travel required for on-site OEM engagements (10%).
- •Occasional travel to other Waymo locations, suppliers, and service providers as needed (10%).
- •Eligible for Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program.