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Senior Customer Safety Engineer - Automotive
StageUnknownStandardsISO 26262 · IEC 61508 · ISO 21448 (SOTIF) · UL 4600IndustryAutomotiveSenioritySeniorRegionCalifornia, USWork modeUnknownSource year2026Company sizeUnknownCompensation152,000 USD - 241,500 USDBenefitsadapt to your organisation
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Role summary
At the Company, we're not just transforming the world of computer graphics and AI; we're setting the stage for the future of autonomous driving. As a Lead Safety Architect, you will be at the forefront of our autonomous vehicle technology, ensuring its safety at scale. You will collaborate with the most innovative engineers and technologists to integrate safety measures into our latest DRIVE products. This role is paramount in achieving and exceeding the Company's high safety standards, making your work both exciting and impactful!
Responsibilities
- Representing the Company's functional safety strategy and architectures to the customer
- Working closely with customers to understand their functional safety requirements and system architectures and feeding those back into the development teams
- Assisting customers to safely integrate and validate our products in their systems and vehicles
- Supporting customer facing safety collateral
- Tailoring functional safety platforms and safety analyses for strategic customers
- You will be working closely with safety management, solution architects, sales and technical marketing teams to deliver state of the art products
Requirements
- You have a bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline (or equivalent experience) with at least 5 years of relevant experience in system safety, functional safety, or systems engineering (or an advanced degree with equivalent experience)
- This position requires a deep understanding of functional safety system architectures needed to meet the ISO 26262Road Vehicles - Functional Safety. Automotive functional safety standard defining ASILAutomotive Safety Integrity Level (A to D) under ISO 26262, derived from severity, exposure, and controllability. Read more levels and the automotive safety lifecycle. Read more functional safety standard. Experience with market adjacent standards such as IEC 61508Functional Safety of E/E/PE Safety-Related Systems. The umbrella functional safety standard defining the safety lifecycle, SILA discrete level (SIL 1 to SIL 4) specifying the required risk reduction and dependability of a safety function under IEC 61508 and its sector standards. Read more levels, and requirements for electrical, electronic, and programmable systems. Read more can also be considered.
- Experience interacting with customers and managing the engagement
- You possess excellent analytical, written, and verbal communication skills and ability to work as part of a team
Nice to have
- ADAS or autonomous vehicle systems robotics or industrial safety experience
- Experience with system safety methodologies & practices (FMEAFailure Modes and Effects Analysis: a bottom-up method cataloging how components fail and what effects those failures produce. Read more, FTA, STPA,..) and safety standards (ISO 26262, IEC 61508, UL4600, ISO21448, ISO 8800Road Vehicles - Safety and Artificial Intelligence. Guidance for assuring AI-based functions in road vehicles: data quality, model behavior bounds, and AI-specific verification evidence, extending ISO 26262 and ISO 21448. Read more..)
- Knowledge and experience with ECU/board level E/E design and validation