Senior Functional Safety Lead: AI-Powered Vehicle Platform

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San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 182,000 - 238,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

Atoms is seeking a senior Safety Engineer to own the functional safety analysis of our automated vehicle platform and sensor suite in the SF office. You will determine safety actions, guide changes, and shape reusable safety-methods used across teams.

The role emphasizes hands-on analysis, tooling, and rapid triage of safety arguments, with a focus on real hardware depth and AI-enabled safety tooling. Base salary is highly competitive for SF, onsite five days a week.

Qualifications

8+ years in functional safety for automotive or safety-critical hardware.

Responsibilities

Own hazard analysis and risk assessment for the platform — derive safety goals and requirements, drive them into the architecture, and maintain traceability from hazard to requirement to verification evidence.
Lead fault and failure analysis across the platform — compute, power and actuation interfaces — and across the sensor suite, covering both hard faults and degraded modes.
Own sensor suite safety: sensing sufficiency and degradation — what coverage exists, how it erodes under adverse conditions, and how faults are detected and handled.
Determine the safety impact of change. Hardware revisions, sensor swaps, software releases, new platform variants and changes to the operating domain all move the safety argument, and you decide what each one costs.
Own change impact assessment — what triggers an assessment, what depth each class of change warrants, what evidence clears it, and what escalates — and keep it fast enough to stay on the critical path.
Own the method the safety case engineers work from: reusable analysis structures they adapt to their own scope, a library of platform-level safety items they reference instead of re-deriving, and queryable hazard-to-evidence traceability.
Ship tooling they run themselves rather than analysis you run for them — change-impact triage that flags which arguments a given change touches, automated traceability checks, and detection of where an argument has gone stale.