Functional Safety Engineer

Oxa Autonomy; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxa Autonomy is looking for a Safety Engineer to enhance the safety of autonomous vehicles. The role involves developing safety processes in line with standards like ISO 26262 and implementing safety analyses. Ideal candidates will have experience in safety engineering, functional safety, and a background in Software Engineering or Robotics within the autonomous vehicle sector.

Benefits

Company share programme

Health cash plan including gym discounts

Flexible benefits fund of £2,000

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Pet-friendly office environment

Qualifications

• Proven experience in functional safety and SOTIF implementation.
• Good knowledge of ISO 26262, PAS 21448 standards.
• Experience in real-time embedded systems and vehicle autonomy.

Responsibilities

• Develop innovative safety engineering approaches for AV challenges.
• Plan and report safety achievements for projects.
• Perform safety analyses using methods like FTA and FMEA.

Skills

Safety Engineering

Communication

Team Collaboration

Problem Solving

Education

Background in Software Engineering or Robotics

Job description

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• Develop innovative safety engineering approaches that transcend current AV safety challenges
• Ensure that Oxa’s products are developed in accordance with safety engineering relevant standards including ISO 26262, ISO/DIS 21448 and other related and emerging standards.
• Provide input and help develop the safety engineering process and related activities covering the concept phase, system and software product development.
• Define and implement the verification and validation strategy for system safety, liaising with cross functional teams.
• Plan, track and report safety achievement of assigned projects and generate safety cases. Recommend improvements and escalate concerns as appropriate.
• Perform safety analyses at the system and software levels using relevant engineering methods like FTA, FMEA, STPA, DFA etc.
• Derive and define safety requirements and support the creation of test cases and validation criteria.

Requirements

What you need to succeed:

• A solid understanding and passion for safety
• Proven experience in the implementation of functional safety and/or SOTIF
• Proven experience working in the following fields: Safety engineering and Autonomous vehicle operations,
• Good knowledge and expertise on the state of the art and relevant safety standards, including ISO 26262, PAS 21448, ISO TS 5083 or similar
• Good communication skills on technical subjects to a variety of audiences at different technical levels
• Good experience and exposure on real time embedded systems
• Work collaborative and proactively to solve problems
• Experience with the full safety engineering lifecycle
• Previous experience of working on vehicle autonomy or advanced ADAS programmes (L3)
• Background in Software Engineering or Robotics

The Candidate Journey: Multi-Step and Two-Way

No-one wants to feel like a square peg in a round hole, so this process is designed to give you every chance to get the measure of us, and us of you. The various stages give you every opportunity to show your unique strengths and qualities, and enables each of us to establish if we’re a good fit for the other. If the fit is good and you’re selected, you’re then in a position to do great work and thrive, which is what everyone wants.

Compensation and Benefits

We provide:

• Competitive salary, benchmarked against the market and reviewed annually
• Company share programme
• Hybrid and/or flexible work arrangements
• Core benefits of market leading private healthcare, life assurance, critical illness cover, income protection, alongside a company paid health cash plan (including gym discounts)
• A flexible £2,000 (pro-rata) benefits fund to spend on additional benefits of your choice, including tech scheme and cycle to work benefits
• A salary exchange pension plan
• 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays
• A pet-friendly office environment
• Safe assigned spaces for team members with individual and diverse needs