Senior Systems & Safety Engineer – Drive-by-Wire
Core
Design, integrate, and validate functional safety for drive-by-wire systems (steer, brake, throttle, shift) on autonomous commercial trucks to ensure fail-operational motion control and ASIL D safety guarantees.
Role type
Senior Systems & Safety Engineer (Drive-by-Wire)
Builds
Autonomous middle-mile logistics fleet with redundant chassis actuation
Domain
Autonomous Vehicles / Commercial Trucking / Functional Safety
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
ISO 26262 ASIL D, HARA, FMEA, FTA, vehicle dynamic modeling, CAN/CAN-FD/FlexRay/Automotive Ethernet, MATLAB/Simulink, Vector CANoe/CANalyzer, fault management strategies, minimum risk maneuvers (MRM)
Preferred skills
redundant DbW integration on commercial trucks, functional safety certification of chassis hardware/software, vehicle stability control (ESC), ABS, automated emergency braking (AEB)
Technologies
ISO 26262, FMVSS, CANoe, CANalyzer, MATLAB, Simulink, FlexRay, Automotive Ethernet
Responsibilities
Define functional safety architecture for redundant steering, braking, and propulsion control; Collaborate with OEMs and Tier-1 providers on DbW interfaces and safety compliance; Establish actuation fault management strategies and emergency stop execution; Perform HARA, FMEA, and FTA analyses on physical actuation channels; Author top-level vehicle safety requirements and trace them to controller firmware and CAN signals; Design physical fault-injection campaigns on test tracks to confirm actuation fallbacks
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC