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Latitude AI

Robot type
Autonomous Vehicle
Location
DetroitMichiganUSA
Job type
Hardware
Posted
Sep 9, 2026
Salary
$191,920–$287,880 a year
Full-time

Staff Functional Safety Systems Engineer

Job description

Latitude AI ( lat.ai ) is building the future of Ford’s autonomy roadmap to make travel safer, less stressful, and more enjoyable for everyone. Bringing this vision to scale, our fully in-house developed hands-free ADAS platform will debut on the all-new Ford Fathom in 2027.

When you join the Latitude team, you’ll work alongside leading experts across machine learning and robotics, cloud platforms, mapping, sensors and compute systems, test operations, systems and safety engineering – all dedicated to redefining the relationship between people and their vehicles for millions of customers.

As a Ford Motor Company subsidiary, we operate independently to develop automated driving technology at…

Job responsibilities

  • Own the safety case framework including formalizing the framework, process, and supporting documentation and then ensure it’s tracked and used throughout the organization
  • Development technical content supporting functional safety case claims/evidence
  • Perform functional safety analyses on assigned functions (HARA, FMEA, FTA, DFA)
  • Collaborate with leads across product development to create technical content supporting the non-functional safety case claims/evidence such as statistical arguments supporting Perception V&V
  • Perform a strategic assessment of technical content supporting non-functional safety case claims/evidence such as working alongside the Test & Software teams in their design of resimulation to ensure it meets our…
  • Lead the software safety architecture development for safety monitors and Runtime on high performance SOCs
  • Be the lead interface with the software, system engineering, safety engineering and security teams to drive traceability between system-level requirements and architecture with software safety specifications and design
  • Lead safety committee reviews both internally and externally

Job requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics or a related field and 7+ years of relevant experience (or Master's degree and 5+ years of relevant experience, or PhD and…
  • Strong ability to quickly understand complex systems and perform systematic software analysis
  • Practical experience with systems engineering methods applied to complex software systems, including systematic system or software analysis (e.g. FMEA, FTA, DFA, attack tree analysis)
  • Knowledge of automotive functional safety standards (ISO-26262 or similar)
  • Experience in safety-critical software development processes
  • Expertise in successfully delivering ASIL D certified products to the market
  • Expertise in safety management and leadership
  • Strong systems engineering fundamentals
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