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Senior Security Engineer

Waymo· Software Engineering
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Mountain View, California$204k - $259kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Senior Security Engineer responsible for establishing and maintaining robust cybersecurity for Waymo's products, conducting threat analysis and risk assessments (TARA) in compliance with ISO/SAE 21434, defining security requirements, and ensuring lifecycle-wide security compliance across multiple projects.

Responsibilities

  • Evaluate system elements and define item boundaries, considering their operational environments, and devise a comprehensive cybersecurity concept.
  • Perform threat analysis and risk assessment (TARA) (e.g., Identify threats to assets, evaluate attack feasibility, impact rating, etc) in compliance with ISO/SAE 21434.
  • Define and manage requirements and determine approaches for proper risk treatment for self-driving platform features that are based on TARA output.
  • Work with Waymo engineering teams on understanding practical security risks, safety implications, and necessary mitigations, during the entire lifecycle of the product (e.g., concept, development, operation, and incident response)
  • Partner with safety teams to evaluate safety impact and required interactions between standards defining cybersecurity and functional safety.
  • Maintain compliance with standards during the entire lifecycle of multiple projects, and perform updates

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Communications Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Computer Science, Physics or similar
  • A thorough understanding of performing cybersecurity threat and risk assessments on technical designs and architectures of embedded systems or other computer systems.
  • A solid understanding of cybersecurity fundamentals (e.g., secure communications, security technologies, etc) and their practical deployments
  • The ability to create & negotiate targets and requirements with Waymo engineering teams.

Skills

Required:Threat analysis and risk assessment (TARA)

Benefits

  • Waymo employees are eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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