Senior Functional Safety Engineer - Autonomous Trucks

Bot Auto; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Bot Auto is seeking a Senior Functional Safety Engineer to define and improve safety for our autonomous trucking platform. You will lead hazard analysis, safety requirements, safety case development, and risk assessments across autonomy, vehicle, hardware, and software teams, bridging deep technical analysis with practical deployment in real-world freight operations.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure traceability from hazards to requirements, verification, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical, Mechanical, or related technical field.
• 7+ years of experience in systems safety or safety-critical engineering for autonomous or complex cyber-physical systems.
• Experience with hazard analyses such as HARA, FMEA, FTA, STPA, and risk assessment.
• Experience developing or contributing to safety cases for safety-critical systems.
• Strong understanding of autonomous vehicle architecture and safety standards (ISO 26262, SAE J3016, ISO PAS 8800).
• Ability to translate ambiguous risks into structured engineering requirements and actionable mitigations.
• Excellent technical communication and collaboration in fast-moving startup environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead system safety analyses for Bot Auto’s autonomous trucking platform, including autonomy software, vehicle controls, perception, planning, and sensors.
• Develop and maintain hazard analyses, functional safety concepts, safety requirements, safety cases, risk assessments, and validation evidence.
• Translate hazards and operational risks into clear, testable safety requirements for engineering, validation, operations, and fleet teams.
• Partner with autonomy, software, hardware, vehicle integration, infrastructure, security, operations, and test teams to ensure safety requirements are implemented and verified.
• Implement safety management across suppliers and distributed safety teams to track safety case work products.
• Support definition and refinement of the Operational Design Domain, including routes, constraints, and risk boundaries.
• Evaluate safety impacts of new features, software releases, and hardware changes.
• Drive safety reviews for on-road testing, driverless readiness, and incident analysis.
• Infer safety trends from logs, simulations, tests, and fleet data to identify improvements.
• Define verification strategies across simulation, closed-course, structured road testing, shadow mode, and deployment.
• Ensure traceability from hazards to requirements, verification, and safety-case evidence.
• Contribute to safety governance, launch readiness, and change management processes.

Skills

Functional Safety

Hazard Analysis

Safety Case Development

FMEA

FTA

STPA

Risk Assessment

Traceability

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

JAMA

Polarion

DOORS

Confluence/JIRA

Job description

Bot Auto is seeking a Senior Functional Safety Engineer to define and improve safety for our autonomous trucking platform. You will lead hazard analysis, safety requirements, safety case development, and risk assessments across autonomy, vehicle, hardware, and software teams, bridging deep technical analysis with practical deployment in real-world freight operations.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure traceability from hazards to requirements, verification, and