The opportunity
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…
What you'll do
Drive End-to-End Actuarial Analyses: Take full ownership of end-to-end analyses—from data gathering, cleansing, and modeling to delivering actionable presentations—managing projects from framing through to impact with minimal oversight.
Advance Pricing & Reserving Models: Independently build, maintain, and refine commercial auto pricing and reserving models to quantify expected losses and support Waymo's insurance and risk-financing strategies.
Champion Automation & AI Tooling: Proactively modernize and automate actuarial workflows, adopting AI-assisted coding, analytical tools, and programmatic data pipelines to scale team leverage.
Quantify Autonomous Driving Risks: Develop innovative quantitative metrics and methodologies to quantify novel risks and benchmark the safety performance of the Waymo Driver.
Build Scalable Data Pipelines: Extract, curate, and cleanse large, complex datasets from internal and external sources using scripting languages such as R, Python, and SQL.
Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner closely with Safety, Engineering, Product, Legal, and Finance to translate complex business and technical questions into tractable actuarial problems and deliver clear risk insights.
What they're looking for
- Institutionalize Best Practices: Establish reproducible modeling standards, document automated pipelines, and mentor teammates on modern actuarial and technical practices.
- FCAS (Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society) strongly preferred. ACAS will: be considered for exceptional candidates with standout technical and domain depth.
- Strong commercial instincts with a proven ability to translate ambiguous: business problems into structured technical analyses, synthesize findings, and provide high-impact risk insights.
- Highly experienced actuary with a proven track record in casualty pricing,: reserving, or risk modeling (commercial auto / transportation lines strongly preferred).
