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Waymo

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United States , Mountain View

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238000.00 - 302000.00 USD / Year

Job Description:

As part of Waymo's Legal team, you will work on the exciting legal issues surrounding our transformational autonomous driving technology and help drive our business lines forward from technology ideation through scaled commercial deployment. We partner with our public policy, safety, security and privacy experts to define transportation policy for the autonomous driving world to come, advising on regulatory changes that support and protect our users around the world. We collaborate with our engineering, product, strategy and operations teams to develop and protect our intellectual property portfolio and drive our corporate and commercial transactions. We ensure compliance with an increasingly complex and dynamic range of global regulations. And we anticipate, mitigate, and litigate high-profile and precedent-setting legal matters.

Job Responsibility:

  • Provide proactive product counseling to safety, product, engineering, operations, and security teams
  • Deeply understand Waymo’s product, operations, and roadmaps, and provide business-focused advice to enable Waymo’s domestic and international growth
  • Advise on product and operational legal risk, including safety and security matters, across multiple jurisdictions and liability regimes (domestic and international)
  • Advise on interactions with partners, vendors, and suppliers on matters posing legal risk, including investigations
  • Advise on approaches to inbound inquiries, internal and external communications, and proposed safety-related research publications
  • Participate as a member of the legal incident response team

Requirements:

  • Law degree (LLB, LLM, or JD)
  • At least 5 years of prior litigation and/or product counseling experience with a law firm or in-house legal department
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to explain complex legal concepts succinctly and pragmatically
  • Strong interpersonal skills and ability to partner effectively at all levels of the company and cross-functionally, including with executives and technical staff
  • Deep understanding of the product life-cycle, vehicle/fleet operations, and litigation/judicial process
  • Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
  • ability to manage a significant workload with competing deadlines in a fast-paced environment
  • Proficiency and comfort navigating ambiguity and developing effective, business-oriented solutions to managing legal risk
  • enthusiasm for winning together as a team and working collaboratively with legal and non-legal stakeholders

Nice to have:

  • Experience working with automotive or emerging technology companies, or with complex hardware, software, and interrelated technologies
  • Product counseling experience, including for products or operations spanning multiple domestic or international jurisdictions and product liability regimes
  • Cybersecurity, data security, and/or security counseling experience
  • Operations and fleet experience
  • Experience counseling across a range of subject matters relevant to regulated industries, emerging technologies, or AI
  • Experience providing legal advice on crisis management or internal investigations
  • Experience defending multi-party tort litigation, investigations, or trials
  • Experience responding to governmental requests for information, and/or other torts, commercial, employment, or IP litigation experience
What we offer:
  • Discretionary annual bonus program
  • Equity incentive plan
  • Generous Company benefits program
  • Top-notch medical, dental and vision insurance
  • Mental wellness support
  • Gym membership
  • Special wellness programs
  • Competitive compensation
  • Bonus opportunities
  • Equity
  • Employees provident fund
  • Perks and employee discounts
  • Flexibility to work from another location for four weeks per year
  • Support for on-site or hybrid work model
  • Remote working opportunities
  • Paid time off
  • Bereavement, sick, and parental leave

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
December 31, 2025

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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