Lead Customer Safety Engineer — Automotive Hardware Equity

NVIDIA; Santa Clara (CA); Presencial; USD 224.000 - 357.000; Jornada completa

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Descripción de la vacante

NVIDIA in Santa Clara, CA, is seeking a Lead Customer Safety Engineer to bridge automotive customers and NVIDIA hardware teams, ensuring safety-critical integration.

You will lead safety analyses, coach engineers, and coordinate with safety groups to meet ISO 26262 requirements.

This role combines hands-on engineering with strategic customer engagement to deliver safe, validated automotive solutions.

Formación

• 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. Experience with market adjacent standards such as IEC 61508 can also be considered.
• 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.

Responsabilidades

• 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.

Conocimientos

Automotive functional safety

ISO 26262

Technical leadership

Communication

Educación

Electrical engineering

Computer engineering

Hardware engineering

Descripción del empleo

NVIDIA in Santa Clara, CA, is seeking a Lead Customer Safety Engineer to bridge automotive customers and NVIDIA hardware teams, ensuring safety-critical integration.

You will lead safety analyses, coach engineers, and coordinate with safety groups to meet ISO 26262 requirements.

This role combines hands-on engineering with strategic customer engagement to deliver safe, validated automotive solutions.