Staff Systems Engineer - Safety

Latitude AI • Detroit, MI

3d • Onsite

About The Position

Latitude AI develops automated driving technologies, including L3, for Ford vehicles at scale. The Functional Safety team ensures the product meets the company's safety standards by leveraging existing standards and creating novel safety approaches for L3 autonomy. This team is responsible for the entire safety lifecycle during the core development and application of the system into a serial-production vehicle. The team collaborates closely with experts in machine learning, prediction/planning, sensor processing, and simulation to understand systems, identify failure modes, and develop detection and response mechanisms.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics or a related field and 7+ years of relevant experience (or Master's degree and 5+ years of relevant experience, or PhD and 2+ years of relevant experience)
• Strong ability to quickly understand complex systems and perform systematic software analysis
• Practical experience with systems engineering methods applied to complex software systems, including systematic system or software analysis (e.g. FMEA, FTA, DFA, attack tree analysis)
• Knowledge of automotive functional safety standards (ISO-26262 or similar)
• Experience in safety-critical software development processes
• Expertise in successfully delivering ASIL D certified products to the market
• Expertise in safety management and leadership
• Strong systems engineering fundamentals
• Previous demonstrated experience delivering products following the safety lifecycle
• Strong record working in the field of system safety as it relates to software design and development
• Strong engineering communication skills, especially the ability to communicate complex engineering issues to a diverse team

Nice To Haves

• Experience applying functional safety concepts to autonomous vehicles and/or high-performance computing a major plus
• Experience with applying advanced safety standards beyond ISO 26262 that can be applied to AI components within autonomous systems (such as ISO 21448, 8800, 5469)
• Experience with qualified tool chains, requirements traceability, documentation management, configuration management and change management systems is a major plus
• Knowledge and execution of software quality processes, such as Automotive SPICE, CMMI, is a plus

Responsibilities

• Own the safety case framework including formalizing the framework, process, and supporting documentation and then ensure it’s tracked and used throughout the organization
• Development technical content supporting functional safety case claims/evidence
• Perform functional safety analyses on assigned functions (HARA, FMEA, FTA, DFA)
• Collaborate with leads across product development to create technical content supporting the non-functional safety case claims/evidence such as statistical arguments supporting Perception V&V
• Perform a strategic assessment of technical content supporting non-functional safety case claims/evidence such as working alongside the Test & Software teams in their design of resimulation to ensure it meets our necessary tool validity & capability needs to satisfy our safety case claims
• Lead the software safety architecture development for safety monitors and Runtime on high performance SOCs
• Be the lead interface with the software, system engineering, safety engineering and security teams to drive traceability between system-level requirements and architecture with software safety specifications and design
• Lead safety committee reviews both internally and externally

Benefits

• Competitive compensation packages
• High-quality individual and family medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Health savings account with available employer match
• Employer-matched 401(k) retirement plan with immediate vesting
• Employer-paid group term life insurance and the option to elect voluntary life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Paid medical leave
• Unlimited vacation
• 15 paid holidays
• Daily lunches, snacks, and beverages available in all office locations
• Pre-tax spending accounts for healthcare and dependent care expenses
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Monthly wellness stipend
• Adoption/Surrogacy support program
• Backup child and elder care program
• Professional development reimbursement
• Employee assistance program
• Discounted programs that include legal services, identity theft protection, pet insurance, and more
• Company and team bonding outlets: employee resource groups, quarterly team activity stipend, and wellness initiatives

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior