Lead Drive-by-Wire & Safety Engineer - Autonomous Trucks

Booster; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Job summary

Gatik in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Senior Systems & Safety Engineer for Drive-by-Wire to lead safety design, hazard mitigation, and functional safety integration for steer-by-wire, brake-by-wire, throttle, and other actuations on our autonomous trucks. On-site five days a week.

You will work with OEMs and suppliers to guarantee fail-operational motion control and ASIL D guarantees, perform safety analyses, and support on-vehicle validation.

Qualifications

• B.S. or M.S. in Mechanical/Mechatronics/Electrical/Automotive Engineering.
• 6+ years in vehicle chassis systems or drive-by-wire safety with ASIL D experience.
• Proficient in vehicle dynamics, CAN/CAN-FD, FlexRay, Automotive Ethernet.
• Experience with ISO 26262 ASIL D safety and FMVSS regulations.

Responsibilities

• Define the functional safety architecture for DbW systems.
• Collaborate with OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers to evaluate DbW interfaces and safety compliance.
• Establish fault management strategies and MRMs with safe transition timing.
• Perform HARA, FMEA, and FTA analyses on actuation channels.
• Ensure traceability of safety requirements to firmware and CAN signals.
• Support on-vehicle validation with fault-injection campaigns.

Skills

Vehicle dynamics modeling

ASIL D safety

CAN/CAN-FD/FlexRay/Ethernet

Fault analysis (HARA/FMEA/FTA)

DbW control concepts

Education

B.S./M.S. in Mechanical/Mechatronics/Electrical/Automotive Engineering

Tools

Vector CANoe/CANalyzer

MATLAB/Simulink

Job description

Gatik in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Senior Systems & Safety Engineer for Drive-by-Wire to lead safety design, hazard mitigation, and functional safety integration for steer-by-wire, brake-by-wire, throttle, and other actuations on our autonomous trucks. On-site five days a week.

You will work with OEMs and suppliers to guarantee fail-operational motion control and ASIL D guarantees, perform safety analyses, and support on-vehicle validation.