Staff AV Safety Engineer - Human Factors (GPSSC)

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Serve as a recognized human factors safety expert to advance development and best practices, influence the AV safety strategy, and convert complex human factors issues into clear conclusions and actionable…
• Apply highly specialized knowledge and independent judgement to lead or support complex, cross-functional hazard analyses of features and components considering human factors areas such as driver-automation…
• Derive traceable requirements, mitigations, validation activities, and operational controls from human factors hazard assessments
• Provide safety technical direction for human-machine interface (HMI) features and components including moding, visual and non-visual alerts, escalations, driver monitoring systems, and driver displays
• Evaluate whether automated-system interactions support appropriate understanding, attention, decision-making, response, and recovery under normal, degraded, and failure-related conditions
• Independently define research questions and execution strategies; select appropriate methods and evaluation criteria; convert study results into safety requirements and best practices
• Integrate research, field and test-vehicle data, incident reviews, operator feedback, and industry evidence into benchmarks, performance thresholds, safety recommendations, and validation needs
• Lead structured human factors analysis of incidents, safety events, operational deviations, and emerging concerns to identify human error causal factors and improve system design, procedures, training, or other controls

Job requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Factors, Systems Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical field
• 10+ years of experience applying human factors engineering principles to safety-critical transportation systems (e.g., automotive, aviation, marine, etc....)
• Demonstrated experience analyzing human interactions with complex automation systems
• Demonstrated expertise in leading or contributing to structured hazard analysis such as System Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), etc.
• Experience translating human factors findings into safety requirements, design recommendations, operational controls, training guidance, or validation criteria
• Experience planning, reviewing, executing, or interpreting human factors research or human-in-the-loop studies
• Demonstrated ability to analyze operational events, incidents, near misses, or operator performance to identify human-error causal factors using event data, video, telemetry, or anecdotal evidence
• Strong technical writing, presentation, facilitation, and cross-functional communication skills to frame ambiguous problems, provide clear technical rationale, and defend decision-making