Senior Product Safety Architect II

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Define and own the safety architecture for our Driver Out autonomous system, establishing the system decomposition, safety mechanisms, and architectural constraints that instantiate our UL 4600 safety case claims.
• Derive functional safety concepts and technical safety concepts from HARA outputs, and allocate safety requirements to AV system components (perception, prediction, planning, actuation, fallback) with clear…
• Own and manage the safety plan according UL4600 and ISO26262 including a schedule to hit the company’s product launches.
• Identify and address AI/ML-specific safety risks including distributional shift, model uncertainty, and failure mode opacity;
• Collaborate with the development teams on every aspect of the safety plan through appropriate processes and methods to ensure on-time delivery of mature work products.
• Create, maintain and review safety work products such as HARA, FSC, TSC, FTA, FMEA, SPFM/LFM, PMHF, and DFA; extend these analyses to cover ML component failure modes and ODD boundary conditions specific to L4…
• Communicate with all required stakeholders to identify and define technical/ system requirements and safety requirements tied to the safety goals.
• Ability to effectively communicate and explain functional safety concepts to non-safety engineers.

Job requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline
• 7+ years of related work experience, with at least 3 years in autonomous vehicle or advanced robotics system architecture, and demonstrable exposure to AI/ML safety challenges in safety-critical applications
• A high level of initiative and activation. Must be able to enthusiastically take on challenges, including those peripheral to core responsibilities when needed for project success.
• Master’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field; specialization in AI safety, dependable systems, or autonomous systems is a strong plus
• Prior experience authoring or contributing to a UL 4600 safety case or equivalent structured safety argument (GSN/CAE) for a deployed autonomous system
• Standard office working conditions which includes but is not limited to:
• Prolonged sitting
• Prolonged standing