Autonomous Driving System Safety Lead
Mountain View, CA$213.5k - $319.7kfull-timePosted 7mo ago
About the role
Lead author of safety claims for the forward-facing ADS safety case, coordinating cross-functional teams to ensure a comprehensive safety case for onboard and offboard software (including AI components) and identifying risks and mitigations.
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.
- While this role starts as an individual contributor, there is opportunity to grow a team after the initially defined technical milestones.
Qualifications
- 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.
- Strong quantitative analytical skills and Python experience.
- 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.
Skills
Required:Safety case developmentSystems engineeringPythonSafety standards
Benefits
- Competitive benefits package including health, dental, and vision insurance
- Annual performance bonus eligibility
- Equity opportunity
- Diversity and inclusion commitments
Last updated Sep 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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