Senior Functional Safety Systems Engineer – Automotive

Latitude AI LLC; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 192,000 - 288,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Health insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Paid parental leave

Unlimited vacation

Job summary

Latitude AI LLC is seeking a Staff Functional Safety Systems Engineer to join our team tackling the safety challenges of autonomous driving technology. This role focuses on owning the safety case framework, developing technical content for safety claims, and performing formal analyses across HARA, FMEA, FTA, and DFA.

You will collaborate across product teams to support non-functional safety claims, drive traceability from system requirements to software safety design, and lead safety

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of relevant experience (or Master's 5+ years, or PhD 2+ years)
• Strong ability to quickly understand complex systems and perform systematic software analysis
• Experience with systems engineering methods applied to complex software systems (FMEA, FTA, DFA, attack tree analysis)
• Knowledge of automotive functional safety standards (ISO-26262 or similar)
• Experience in safety-critical software development processes
• Expertise in delivering ASIL D certified products
• Expertise in safety management and leadership
• Experience delivering products following the safety lifecycle
• Strong engineering communication skills

Responsibilities

• Own the safety case framework including formalizing the framework, process, and supporting documentation and then ensure it’s tracked and used throughout the organization
• Development technical content supporting functional safety case claims/evidence
• Perform functional safety analyses on assigned functions (HARA, FMEA, FTA, DFA)
• Collaborate with leads across product development to create technical content supporting non-functional safety case claims/evidence such as statistical arguments supporting Perception V&V
• Perform a strategic assessment of technical content supporting non-functional safety case claims/evidence such as working alongside the Test & Software teams in their design of resimulation to ensure it meets our necessary tool validity & capability needs to satisfy our safety case claims
• Lead the software safety architecture development for safety monitors and Runtime on high performance SOCs
• Be the lead interface with the software, system engineering, safety engineering and security teams to drive traceability between system-level requirements and architecture with software safety specifications and design
• Lead safety committee reviews both internally and externally

Skills

Systems engineering methods

FMEA

FTA

DFA

ISO-26262 knowledge

Safety lifecycle

Software safety architecture

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics or related field

Master's degree in related field

PhD in related field

Tools

Automotive SPICE

CMMI

Requirements traceability

Configuration management

Job description

Latitude AI LLC is seeking a Staff Functional Safety Systems Engineer to join our team tackling the safety challenges of autonomous driving technology. This role focuses on owning the safety case framework, developing technical content for safety claims, and performing formal analyses across HARA, FMEA, FTA, and DFA.

You will collaborate across product teams to support non-functional safety claims, drive traceability from system requirements to software safety design, and lead safety