Senior Customer Safety Engineer - Automotive

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); Sur place; USD 152 000 - 242 000; Plein temps

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Equity

Benefits

Résumé du poste

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.

Responsabilités

• 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.

Connaissances

Functional safety

Systems engineering

Customer engagement

Formation

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Advanced engineering degree

Outils

ISO 26262

IEC 61508

Description du poste

NVIDIA has been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for more than 25 years. It's a unique legacy of innovation that’s fueled by great technology—and amazing people. Today, we're tapping into the unlimited potential of AI to define the next era of computing. An era in which our GPU acts as the brains of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can understand the world. Doing what's never been done before takes vision, innovation, and the world's best talent.

As an NVIDIAN, you'll be immersed in a diverse, supportive environment where everyone is inspired to do their best work. Come join the team and see how you can make a lasting impact on the world. At NVIDIA, we're not just transforming the world of computer graphics and AI; we're setting the stage for the future of autonomous driving. As a Lead Safety Architect, you will be at the forefront of our autonomous vehicle technology, ensuring its safety at scale. You will collaborate with the most innovative engineers and technologists to integrate safety measures into our latest DRIVE products. This role is paramount in achieving and exceeding NVIDIA's high safety standards, making your work both exciting and impactful!

What you'll be doing:

• Representing NVIDIA’s functional safety strategy and architectures to the customer
• Working closely with customers to understand their functional safety requirements and system architectures and feeding those back into the development teams
• Assisting customers to safely integrate and validate our products in their systems and vehicles
• Supporting customer facing safety collateral
• Tailoring functional safety platforms and safety analyses for strategic customers
• You will be working closely with safety management, solution architects, sales and technical marketing teams to deliver state of the art products

What we need to see:

• You have a bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline (or equivalent experience) with at least 5 years of relevant experience in system safety, functional safety, or systems engineering (or an advanced degree with equivalent experience)
• This position requires a deep understanding of functional safety system architectures needed to meet the ISO 26262 functional safety standard.
• Experience with market adjacent standards such as IEC 61508 can also be considered.
• Experience interacting with customers and managing the engagement
• You possess excellent analytical, written, and verbal communication skills and ability to work as part of a team

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• ADAS or autonomous vehicle systems robotics or industrial safety experience
• Experience with system safety methodologies & practices (FMEA, FTA, STPA,..) and safety standards (ISO 26262, IEC 61508, UL4600, ISO21448, ISO 8800..)
• Knowledge and experience with ECU/board level E/E design and validation

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 152,000 USD - 241,500 USD. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until September 25, 2026.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.