Technical Director, Safety Case

Job description

Job responsibilities

• A clear and credible safety case architecture exists for Wayve’s first robotaxi and OEM ADAS products.
• Engineering and Product teams understand the safety claims they support and the evidence they are responsible for delivering.
• Safety gaps and weak assumptions are identified early enough to influence product decisions rather than being discovered at the end of a programme.
• Wayve develops a safety argument for AI-enabled autonomous driving that is technically rigorous, scalable and capable of standing up to scrutiny from customers, regulators and independent assessors.
• Senior safety and product governance has an independent, evidence-based view of whether the safety case is sufficiently strong to support release and deployment decisions.

Job requirements

• Deep experience developing or owning safety cases for complex safety-critical systems, ideally in autonomous vehicles, ADAS, robotics, aerospace, defence, or another software-intensive domain.
• Strong systems engineering background spanning requirements, architecture, verification, validation, and safety assurance.
• Proven ability to translate complex technical evidence into structured safety claims and arguments.
• Strong understanding of autonomous driving and AI/ML safety, including model performance, data, uncertainty, and limitations of conventional verification approaches.
• Experience partnering with AI/ML, engineering, systems, and product teams on safety-critical products.
• Strong knowledge of relevant standards, including ISO 26262, ISO 21448, ISO/PAS 8800, and ISO 3450x.
• Excellent technical communication and stakeholder management skills.
• You are an architect and systems thinker who can move comfortably between top-level safety strategy and detailed technical evidence.