Senior Platform Safety Analysis Engineer, HALOs Platforms - Autonomous Vehicles

NVIDIA; Columbia (SC); On-site; USD 224,000 - 356,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA is developing an AI-based full stack for autonomous transport and a HALOs platform with fail-operational features. This role focuses on rigorous HW safety analyses, integrating system, software and hardware safety measures to meet demanding targets.

You will propose new methods to analyze and demonstrate fault metrics, develop automation for multi-layered safety analysis, and work across company boundaries with engineering partners to improve overall safety compliance.

Qualifications

• BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of experience in systems architecture or related fields.
• Experience working across company boundaries as development partners.
• Safety analysis of embedded systems at hardware and software levels.

Responsibilities

• Analyze HW fault metrics and propose new methods for compliance.
• Carry out fault tree and model-based analyses to derive diagnostic measures.
• Develop automation to support analysis of complex multi-layered systems.
• Interpret internal and external safety docs to find improvements.
• Ensure integration of system, software and hardware safety analyses to meet HW safety metrics.

Skills

Systems architecture

Embedded safety analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

BS/MS/PhD in CS/CE/EE or equivalent experience

Tools

Safety standards knowledge

Job description

NVIDIA – “the AI computing company” is developing a ground-breaking AI-based full stack for autonomous transportation and base platform to support it. This requires a ground-breaking approach to functional safety in the underlying HALOs platform, including scheduling and management of synchronization and diverse HW compute engines, full platform error reporting and degradation, system state management and fail-operational features.

What You'll Be Doing

• The increased use of AI and the underlying compute HW used represent a challenge to analyze and demonstrate HW fault metric compliance, we will look to you to propose new methods and refine existing practices.
• You will carry out analysis using classical approaches such as fault trees used alongside model-based techniques to derive application and system-level diagnostic measures on top of existing HW measures.
• Development of automation to support the analysis of complex multi-layered systems will be required.
• Analysis and interpretation of internal and external safety documentation to identify improvements which can be helpful to meet ever more challenging safety targets.
• Ensure the integration of the System, Software and Hardware safety analysis methodologies to demonstrate the final system meets overall HW safety metrics.

What We Need To See

• BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 12+ years of experience in systems architecture or related fields.
• Experience working across company boundaries as development partners.
• We seek technically strong engineers who bring experience in safety analysis of embedded systems at the Hardware and Software Level and can find the right level of abstraction adapted to the tasks in hand.

Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd

• Proven competence in performing safety analysis using qualitative and quantitative methods (e.g FTA, FMEA and FMEDAs)
• Background in HW SOC and/or board level architecture, Automotive ECU architecture is especially valued.
• Demonstrable competence in tools and automation focused on safety analysis.
• Familiarity with safety standards (ISO 26262, IEC 61508, ISO/PAS 21448)
• Experience in the evaluation of fault metrics through the combination of built-in HW measures and application coverage.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until July 12, 2026.

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