Autonomous Driving System Safety Lead
About The Position
As the Autonomous Driving System Safety Lead on the Systems Engineering team, you will own and author safety claims in the forward-facing ADS safety case for onboard and offboard software, a large fraction of which is AI components. You will work closely with the autonomy software, data platform, operations, and legal teams to coordinate system requirements, AI architecture, and evidence in support of these claims. You will be responsible for ensuring that the cross-functional team creates a safety case for onboard and offboard software that is comprehensive and that potential gaps are identified and mitigated. While this role starts as an individual contributor, there is opportunity to grow a team after the initially defined technical milestones.
Requirements
- 5+ years of technical work experience in a relevant area, of which 3+ years should be in robotics software.
- Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree, or Doctoral Degree in Computer Science, Math, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Physics, or related field.
- Working knowledge of and ability to apply systems engineering concepts of requirements, verification, and validation, with a deep understanding of how robotic systems work.
- Experience working in a safety-critical industry (e.g. robotics, automotive, aviation/aerospace, medical devices) for a complex robotic system.
- Hands-on experience with ISO 21448 and familiarity with ISO 8800.
- Highly collaborative in nature with strong abilities to think and communicate analytically and effectively, and the ability to build good working relationships.
Nice To Haves
- Background in autonomous vehicles ideally with L4 AV deployment.
- Experience writing safety claims and system requirements for SAE L2/L3/L4 systems to operate safely.
- Experience with ISO 8800.
- Experience with naturalistic driving data and human benchmarking analysis.
- Experience with simulation of autonomous vehicles applied to verification and validation.
- Technical and strategic management experience with a small team.
Responsibilities
- Manage safety claims by understanding the ADS design, interfaces, and technical capabilities of the system and by working closely with Autonomy Robotics and Software Infrastructure leads.
- Generate atomic claims through claim decomposition, delegating to the cross-functional teams where appropriate and managing quality where delegated.
- Generate counter-arguments (challenges) to claims, and ensure that they are either addressed or mitigated.
- Review and assess evidence from evaluation and validation as arguments for safety case claims, and by working closely with V&V test teams.
- Develop processes for and coordinate the tracking of safety performance indicators, as available from various Systems Engineering and Software Evaluation teams, to monitor driverless (driver-out L4) deployment.
- Escalate functional and technical risks, and missing work items such as test gaps, ADS design risks, and AI architecture insufficiencies to senior leadership and propose mitigations.
- Support safety research, identify appropriate technical standards and best practices that support the safety case, and apply them effectively.
Benefits
- At Nuro, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package.
- This position is also eligible for an annual performance bonus, equity, and a competitive benefits package.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
501-1,000 employees
