About the position
The Systems and Safety team is responsible for the development of requirements and safety aspects necessary to support US public road fleet operations. Within this team, the Sr. Compliance and Vehicle Operations Systems Engineer will be responsible for comprehensively understanding and addressing the scope of requirements related to the operation of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) beyond the Dynamic Driving Tasks (DDT). These include, but are not limited to, passenger management, fleet operations, remote assistance, and interactions with first responders. The person in this role will also actively interface with product developers, operations partners, government officials, law enforcement, first responders, and local transportation departments, to identify their needs, ensure compliance, develop requirements, and oversee their effective implementation and strategies to verify and validate the functionality.
Responsibilities
- Identify relevant requirements for the AV, fleet operations, remote assistance, first responder interactions etc. in the US.
- Navigate the complexities of balancing requirements between legal interpretation vs business needs.
- Work cross-functionally across product managers, safety engineers, operations leads, government and community engagement teams to develop non-DDT requirements and parameters for US operations.
- Proactively engage with relevant VW Group of America stakeholders (Safety Office, Legal, Product, Operations, etc.) to assess project relevance.
- Interface with relevant government officials such as Law Enforcement, First Responders, Local Transportation Departments to ensure compliance with local regulations and their needs.
- Conduct regular reviews with an implementation team to ensure requirements are met and get buy-in.
- Guide and advocate for the requirements through the appropriate change process.
- Interface with V&V team on establishing pass-fail criteria and test modalities for the verification of developed requirements.
- Develop or support necessary artifacts for specific requirements.
- Tailoring of the safety case for US operations.
Requirements
- 7 years of experience in a requirement focused role in the development of autonomous vehicles.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field.
- Strong record working in the field of systems engineering and safety as it relates to requirements development and management.
- Expertise with the application of systems engineering principles to safety critical systems.
- Strong understanding of evaluation of autonomous systems including pass/fail criteria, metrics, requirements, and more.
- Expertise working with regulations and regulatory authorities.
- Strong foundation in systems engineering fundamentals.
Nice-to-haves
- Master's degree.
- Experience in developing and/or testing autonomous systems.
- Automotive engineering experience.
- Expertise with modern systems engineering requirements management practices.
Benefits
- Annual bonus target and other incentives.
- Equal Opportunity Employer.
