Senior Systems Engineer, Fail Operational Safety Strategy
Core
Define and own fail-operational safety strategies and roadmaps for expanding autonomous robotaxi operations into new environments and Operational Design Domains (ODDs), ensuring safety and reliability before public deployment.
Role type
Senior Systems Engineer (Autonomous Mobility Safety Strategy)
Builds
Safety cases, fault response strategies, and resilience frameworks for autonomous driving robots
Domain
Autonomous vehicles / Robotics / Safety Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
Systems engineering, requirements management, system architecture, fault detection and isolation, redundancy design, failover strategies, graceful degradation, quantitative analysis, modeling, performance metrics definition, system-level trade-off analysis
Preferred skills
Autonomous vehicle development, complex robotics systems, requirements management tools (Polarion, DOORS), system safety analysis, data analysis tools (Databricks, BigQuery, Looker, Grafana), ISO 26262, ISO 21448
Technologies
AI, LLM tools, Databricks, BigQuery, Looker, Grafana, Polarion, DOORS
Responsibilities
Define fail-operational safety strategy and roadmap for new ODDs; Design and maintain fault response strategies for vehicle safety during malfunctions; Build frameworks for assessing fault handling effectiveness and system resilience; Partner with software, hardware, and operations teams to ensure holistic system safety; Leverage AI and LLM tools to automate analysis processes
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC