- Robot type
- Autonomous Vehicle
- Location
- Santa ClaraCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Business Operations
- Posted
- Sep 4, 2026
- Salary
- $160,000–$240,000 a year
Full-time
Senior Systems & Safety Engineer – Autonomy
Job description
We have delivered complete, proprietary AV technology - an integration of software and hardware - to enable earlier successes for our clients in constrained Level 4 autonomy. By choosing the middle mile – with defined point-to-point delivery, we have simplified some of the more complex AV challenges, enabling us to achieve full autonomy ahead of competitors. Given extensive knowledge of Gatik’s well-defined, fixed route ODDs and hybrid architecture, we are able to hyper-optimize our models with exponentially less data, establish gate-keeping mechanisms to maintain explainability, and ensure continued safety of the system for unmanned operations.
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Job responsibilities
- System Safety Concept Development: Define and maintain the Functional Safety Concept (FSC) and Technical Safety Concept (TSC) for Gatik’s Level 4 autonomous system in accordance with ISO 26262 (up to ASIL D).
- Hazard Analysis & Risk Assessment (HARA): Lead system-level HARAs, STPA (System-Theoretic Process Analysis), FMEAs, and FTAs (Fault Tree Analysis) across autonomy modules.
- Requirements Breakdown & Traceability: Derive safety requirements from vehicle-level goals down to software components, allocating requirements to middleware, stack algorithms, and diagnostic monitors in systems like…
- Minimum Risk Maneuver (MRM) Architecture: Architect fail-operational, fail-aware, and fail-safe fallback strategies, including degraded modes, trajectory fallback, and pull-over behaviors.
- Safety Metrics & SPIs: Define and monitor Safety Performance Indicators (SPIs) and safety metrics to continuously assess stack maturity and release readiness.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Autonomy Software, Middleware, Infrastructure, and Systems teams to embed functional safety into daily agile development processes.
Job requirements
- Education: B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Robotics, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or Aerospace Engineering.
- Experience: 6+ years in functional safety or systems engineering for autonomous vehicles, robotics, or safety-critical aerospace/automotive platforms.
- Standards Mastery: Deep expertise in ISO 26262, UL 4600, and ISO 21448.
- Technical Rigor:
- Demonstrated mastery of safety analysis techniques: HARA, STPA, FMEA, FTA, and Reliability Block Diagrams.
- Strong programming proficiency in C++ and Python for reading codebases, analyzing logs, and writing architectural scripts.
- Experience defining architecture for deterministic, real-time autonomous systems.
- Tooling: Experience with safety and requirements management software (Jama, DOORS, Enterprise Architect, or code-based tracing tools).