Safety System Engineer

Wayve

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

Wayve is seeking a Safety System Engineer to lead functional safety activities for their Embodied AI technology, specifically for Automated Driving Systems (ADS) and their integration into vehicle platforms. This role involves collaborating with internal and external teams to understand systems, conduct risk assessments, develop safety concepts, and define system architectures that meet safety requirements. The engineer will also support software implementation, define test specifications, build safety cases, contribute to production projects, and update safety processes for certification. The company emphasizes a fast-paced environment, embracing uncertainty, and valuing diversity and inclusion.

Requirements

Very good understanding of the functional safety development process as per ISO 26262 with a minimum 5 years of experience in applying the standard on different automotive systems; in particular parts 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9.
Experience in conducting vehicle level testing activities at proving grounds to verify and validate the safety concept.

Nice To Haves

Expertise in ISO 26262-6; the candidate must have practical experience in developing or leading the development of ISO 26262 compliant production software and in the qualification of software tools.
Experience in managing suppliers of safety related hardware or software elements (DIA design, supplier audit and assessment, project management)).
Knowledge and experience in developing the safety case of an AD systems, in particular: Experience in developing the safety concept for a computer vision based system
Sufficient knowledge of neural networks (architectures, algorithms, training and testing pipeline) to understand the challenges associated with the safety assurance of such systems and discuss options and rationales with our scientists
Experience in SOTIF, especially in identifying SOTIF triggering conditions through analysis and defining testing and validation strategies to assess SOTIF performance.
Operational safety experience, such as identifying the operational risks and designing training and operational procedures to ensure the safety of testing on public roads, is a plus.

Responsibilities

Lead the functional safety activities for Wayve’s ADS, and its integration into present and future vehicle platforms, or the integration of third party safety-critical systems.
Working with various internal and external teams to gain a deep understanding of the system under development to build the Item Definition work product for each platform.
Conduct risk assessments (HARAs, FMEAs, FTAs) to identify the risks and build a safety concept to mitigate the risks to an acceptable level.
Work with internal design teams to build a system architecture that meets the safety concept including decisions on decompositions, deriving relevant SW and external requirements.
Support internal SW teams in implementing the safety requirements on target HW.
Define test specifications at various levels of integration to verify and finally validate the safety concept.
Define the Safety case by building a structured claims, arguments and evidence based paradigm.
Contribute to developing the safety work products for production projects with similar activities as defined above.
Work with the process and compliance teams to update the safety processes for certification activities.