Director, System Safety & Security

The job overview for this position is that the Director of the Safety and Security team at Torc will provide senior-level leadership in defining, designing, and developing critical elements of Torc's safety case. They will work with various engineering, product, safety, and legal teams to ensure that Torc's products meet the highest safety and security standards. Additionally, they will collaborate with suppliers and partners to ensure safety and security homogeneity. This role requires strong leadership skills, technical expertise, and experience in applying safety standards and methods.

• Provide leadership, direction, and definition for the Safety Engineering function including planning, scheduling, coordination, and implementation
• Develop and maintain best-in-class state of the safety framework
• Define targets for product risk, reliability, availability, robustness, and security
• Drive execution toward the target via validation and release strategies
• Develop metrics to demonstrate release readiness and drive adoption via development cycle modifications
• Assess technical quality of system, safety, and security artifacts
• Lead a team of technical experts and engineering managers
• Effectively manage individual goals and objectives, performance, and employee development
• Accomplish department objectives by supervising staff
• Develop and monitor work processes with the highest degree of quality and safety
• Collaborate with executive leadership in engineering, PMO, product management, system engineering, testing, rigor, and operations on workflows and artifacts
• Apply standards like ISO 26262, 21448, and 21434
• Perform personnel management activities including performance planning and evaluations, corrective actions, conflict resolution, recruiting and onboarding, and ensuring compliance to software policies and procedures
• Lead engineers in the delivery of software-centric solutions with complex algorithm development and data models
• Advance careers and technical development of experts and leaders/managers
• Apply methods like STPA, FMEA, FTA, DRBFM, 3x5 Why
• Apply Agile principles (Scrum/Kanban)
• Have experience in software development, operating systems, development languages, deployment of software products, or systems engineering
• Exhibit excellent servant leadership characteristics and willingness to support the career growth of others
• Exhibit excellent facilitation, technical team coaching, and critical systems thinking
• Work with product and/or quality managers, with an understanding of business-level priorities
• Have excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills to build trust and strong working relationships

• Master's degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or equivalent with 12+ years relevant experience
• 7+ years overall of proven experience in applying standards like ISO (International Standards Organizations) 26262, 21448 and 21434
• Minimum 5+ years performing personnel management activities including but not limited to performance planning and evaluations, corrective actions, and conflict resolution, recruiting and onboarding, and ensuring compliance to software policies and procedures
• 3+ years’ experience leading engineers in the delivery of software centric solutions that include complex algorithm development and data models, with emphasis on best practices in coding standards, testing, and systems integration
• Proven experience at advancing careers and technical development of experts and leaders/managers
• Proven experience in applying methods like STPA (Systems Theoretic Process Analysis), FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis), FTA, DRBFM, 3x5 Why
• Excellent experience applying Agile principles (Scrum/Kanban)
• Experience in software development, operating systems, development languages, and deployment of software products, or systems engineering including networking, database management, virtual environments, system design, integration, and maintenance
• Exhibit excellent servant leadership characteristics and willingness to support the career growth of others
• Exhibit excellent facilitation, technical team coaching, and critical systems thinking
• Proficient knowledge of working with product and/or quality managers, with understanding of business-level priorities
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills to build trust and strong working relationship

• Competitive compensation package including bonus component and stock options
• 100% paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees
• 401K plan with a 6% employer match
• Flexibility in schedule and generous paid vacation
• Company-wide holiday office closures
• AD+D and Life Insurance