Staff Functional Safety Engineer – Autonomy
| Company | Aurora Innovation |
|---|---|
| Location | Mountain View, CA, USA |
| Salary | $162000 – $260000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree, Master of Science or PhD in Engineering or related discipline
- Minimum 7+ years of experience working in functional safety, system safety, or safety engineering
- Experience performing HARA, FMEA and FTA
- Ability to demonstrate a proven track record of successfully working with large, complex teams in a results-driven environment
- Ability to perform implementation agnostics safety analysis for complex designs
- Comfortable working with ambiguity and evolving priorities
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Working knowledge of ISO 26262
Responsibilities
- Perform safety analysis at all levels of system product to identify design vulnerabilities
- Derive from the analysis of functional and technical safety requirements for various Autonomy software subsystems to ensure the safety of the self-driving vehicle in the presence of faults
- Work with cross-functional teams to play a critical role in complex system understanding, modeling, and definition of the system constraints
- Perform hazard analysis and risk assessment (HARA) and derive Safety Goals and FTTI
- Build functional safety concept and technical safety concept for the self-driving application in order to satisfy the safety goals
- Perform Failure Modes, Effects and Analysis and Fault Tree Analysis of Autonomy
- Perform safety analysis such as trade study, statistical analysis etc. in order to drive the safety critical design decisions
- Create, maintain and manage safety requirements using a requirement management tool
- Generate and maintain processes pertaining to functional safety and software quality
- Serve as the Safety subject matter expert in safety critical cross-functional design decisions
- Collaborate with software subject-matter-experts to build the fault management concept to detect, control and mitigate faults.
Preferred Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience working in functional safety, system safety, or safety engineering
- Experience with complex autonomous systems
- Working knowledge of Python and physical modeling and simulation tool (e.g., MATLAB)
- Experience with Machine Learning
- Experience leading a technical area