Senior Automotive Safety Architect – ISO 26262 + Equity

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 152,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA in Santa Clara, CA, seeks a Lead Safety Architect to drive safety for DRIVE autonomous vehicles. You will represent the safety strategy to customers, collaborate with engineering teams, and tailor safety analyses for key accounts.

You bring a bachelor’s in engineering with 5+ years in functional safety or systems engineering, deep ISO 26262 knowledge, and strong communication. The role offers equity, benefits, and a competitive base salary with broad impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering (or equivalent); 5+ years in system safety or functional safety.
• Deep understanding of ISO 26262 functional safety and related standards.
• Experience interacting with customers and managing engagements.
• Excellent analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Represent NVIDIA’s functional safety strategy and architectures to the customer.
• Work with customers to understand their functional safety requirements and system architectures and feed back to development teams.
• Assist customers to safely integrate and validate NVIDIA products in their systems and vehicles.
• Support customer-facing safety collateral.
• Tailor functional safety platforms and safety analyses for strategic customers.
• Collaborate with safety management, solution architects, sales and technical marketing teams to deliver state of the art products.

Skills

Functional safety

Systems engineering

Customer engagement

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Advanced engineering degree

Tools

ISO 26262

IEC 61508

Job description

NVIDIA in Santa Clara, CA, seeks a Lead Safety Architect to drive safety for DRIVE autonomous vehicles. You will represent the safety strategy to customers, collaborate with engineering teams, and tailor safety analyses for key accounts.

You bring a bachelor’s in engineering with 5+ years in functional safety or systems engineering, deep ISO 26262 knowledge, and strong communication. The role offers equity, benefits, and a competitive base salary with broad impact.