Principal Engineer Team Lead, Safety & Targets

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Own Motional’s safety critical functions: Drive the development and maturation of collision detection and response and imminent collision handling across autonomy, remote vehicle assistance, and operational functions.
• Own the benchmark program across safety, comfort, and assertiveness: Establish and expand human driving benchmarks for all three dimensions across every key capability area, not safety alone.
• Own Coverage and Gap analysis: Define what sufficient coverage for our validation looks test suites look like, identify gaps and work cross functionally to close them
• Deliver the safety case evidence: Own the systems engineering lifecycle deliverables such as hazard analysis, STPA, HAZOP, FMEA, requirements, and coverage for safety critical systems.
• Scale through tooling and automation: Productionize crash database analysis, collision event ingestion and labeling, and automated continuous monitoring reports so safety insight scales faster than fleet miles.
• Lead and scale: Mentor and grow a high-performing engineering team. Foster a culture of technical excellence, scientific rigor, and data-driven decision-making.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Partner with Autonomy, Infrastructure, Operations, Legal, and the other Systems teams to drive design improvements and ensure features generate a net positive effect on system safety,…

Job requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of experience in Systems Engineering, Functional Safety, Autonomous Systems, or Robotics, with deep expertise in one and working knowledge of the others.
• 3+ years of experience leading safety-critical development, validation, or safety assurance programs for autonomous driving or other emerging safety-critical technologies.
• A hands-on technical leader with a proven track record of growing small, high-performing teams.
• Demonstrated track record defining quantitative performance targets and acceptance criteria spanning safety, comfort, and assertiveness and producing the analysis and evidence that justifies them.
• Working expertise in hazard and safety analysis methods such as STPA, HAZOP, FMEA, and hazard analysis and risk assessment.
• Expert at leveraging large-scale simulation, track, and road data to extract actionable technical insights that drive resolution with development teams.
• Familiarity with SOTIF, ISO 26262, UL4600, and AVSC behavior competencies and other industry standards.
• Proven track record of building consensus across multidisciplinary teams by leveraging technical influence over organizational authority.