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Senior Sensor Hardware Safety Engineer

NVIDIA· Architect
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Santa Clara, CA$184k - $287.5kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior-level hardware safety engineering role responsible for defining and driving hardware safety for sensor systems across NVIDIA’s automotive platforms, collaborating across sensor architecture, board hardware, software, systems, validation, and supplier teams to ensure robust integration of safety-critical sensor systems.

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end sensor hardware safety strategy for cameras, LiDAR, radar, IMUs and other sensors used in NVIDIA automotive systems.
  • Support sensor supplier selection through technical and safety evaluations of sensor architectures, safety concepts, safety analysis, and integration assumptions.
  • Define and manage sensor hardware safety requirements, including requirements for sensor power, interfaces, timing, synchronization, data integrity, fault detection, and fault response.
  • Collaborate with sensor architects, board and system designers, software teams, and validation engineers to develop effective implementations of sensor safety requirements.
  • Perform and review safety cases & analyses, including FMEA, FMEDA, DFA, and FTA, and use the results to guide architecture decisions and design improvements.
  • Work with third-party suppliers to evaluate safety manuals, analysis reports, assumptions of use, and supporting evidence for sensor integration.
  • Develop clear safety documentation, integration guidance, analysis reports, and user-facing safety information for internal teams and customers.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or related engineering field, or equivalent experience.
  • 8+ years of relevant experience in automotive sensors, hardware systems, functional safety, or related field.
  • Understanding of automotive sensor technologies such as cameras, radar, LiDAR, or IMUs, including their hardware architectures and system interfaces.
  • Knowledge of safety analysis methodologies, including FMEA, FMEDA, DFA, and FTA.
  • Ability to work effectively with sensor suppliers and multidisciplinary engineering teams from concept through integration and verification.
  • Proven ownership and proactivity, with a strong bias for action and results.
  • Excellent analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.

Skills

Required:Sensor hardware safety strategySafety analysis (FMEA, FMEDA, DFA, FTA)

Benefits

  • equity
  • benefits
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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