Autonomous Driving Safety Systems Engineer

Wayve; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Hybrid working model

Learning & development budgets

Equity and long-term incentive

Job summary

Wayve is seeking a Safety System Engineer to lead automotive functional safety for the ADS across vehicle platforms and partnerships. You’ll shape safety concepts, verify assumptions and build the evidence needed for safety cases.

The role requires hands-on safety delivery, strong collaboration with hardware, software and safety teams, and readiness to drive certification activities. You’ll work in a hybrid setup with experts around the world, contributing to a safer, scalable autonomous driving

Qualifications

• At least 5 years hands-on automotive functional safety experience applying ISO 26262 across different systems (Parts 3–9).
• Experience with vehicle-level testing to verify safety concepts.
• Proficient in risk analysis and safety engineering techniques such as HARAs, FMEAs and FTAs.
• Ability to work across software, hardware, systems and external partners.
• Pragmatic problem solver who can balance risk and safety in a fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead functional safety activities for Wayve's ADS and vehicle platforms.
• Define verification, validation and safety case evidence for certification work.
• Collaborate with design teams on architectures that satisfy safety concepts.
• Support software teams in implementing safety requirements on target hardware.
• Develop and maintain safety-related work products and processes.

Skills

Functional safety

ISO 26262

Risk analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Self-starter

Job description

Wayve is seeking a Safety System Engineer to lead automotive functional safety for the ADS across vehicle platforms and partnerships. You’ll shape safety concepts, verify assumptions and build the evidence needed for safety cases.

The role requires hands-on safety delivery, strong collaboration with hardware, software and safety teams, and readiness to drive certification activities. You’ll work in a hybrid setup with experts around the world, contributing to a safer, scalable autonomous driving