Lead Automotive Hardware Safety Engineer

NVIDIA; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 224,000 - 357,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Lead Customer Safety Engineer in Santa Clara to represent the company’s functional safety strategy with automotive customers. You will bridge customer needs with internal teams to ensure hardware safety across complex SoCs, GPUs, and controllers.

You’ll guide safety discussions with OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate across hardware, software, and sales to deliver safe, compliant products. Equity and benefits included.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, hardware engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• At least 12 years’ experience, with more than 3 years in automotive functional safety, chip or ECU development, or customer safety engineering.
• Solid understanding of ISO 26262, including hardware safety concepts, SEooC development, assumptions of use, hardware safety integrity, and customer integration.
• Excellent analytical, written, and verbal communication skills and the ability to work as part of a team.
• Ability to lead complex technical discussions with automotive OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, assessors, and cross-functional engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Represent NVIDIA’s functional safety strategy and architectures to the customer.
• Serve as the principal customer interface for hardware safety topics, translating customer needs into clear actions for internal teams.
• Assist customers to safely integrate and validate our products in their systems and vehicles.
• Coordinate Development Interface Agreements and clarify the division of safety responsibilities between NVIDIA and customers.
• Support customer-facing safety collaterals, including tailor functional safety platforms and safety analyses for strategic customers.
• Lead resolution of customer safety questions, gaps, and change requests, engaging the appropriate NVIDIA subject-matter experts.
• Mentor junior customer safety engineers and establish consistent practices for technical reviews, monitoring concerns, partner concern handling, and customer communication.
• Work closely with safety management, solution architects, hardware and software engineering, sales, and technical marketing teams to deliver safe products.

Skills

ISO 26262

Technical leadership

Stakeholder comms

Team collaboration

Automotive safety

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in electrical/computer/hardware engineering

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a Lead Customer Safety Engineer in Santa Clara to represent the company’s functional safety strategy with automotive customers. You will bridge customer needs with internal teams to ensure hardware safety across complex SoCs, GPUs, and controllers.

You’ll guide safety discussions with OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate across hardware, software, and sales to deliver safe, compliant products. Equity and benefits included.