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Senior Systems Engineer, Fail Operational Safety Strategy

Foster City, CA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-15 → 2026-09-26

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

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