System Safety Engineer — Automotive ADAS Safety

Woven by Toyota; Ann Arbor (MI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k program

Flexible vacation policy

Family planning and care benefits

Job summary

Woven by Toyota is seeking a systems-minded safety engineer to transform safety goals into verifiable design; you will work at the intersection of system architecture and implementation, allocating safety requirements and ensuring robust safety mechanisms across AD/ADAS software.

This is a hands-on, IC role collaborating with AD/ADAS feature teams, V&V, ML Safety, and Cybersecurity to ship safe software for mass production.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS, EE, ME or related discipline.
• 3+ years in safety-critical automotive or aerospace systems in a production environment.
• Demonstrated ownership of technical safety concepts and requirement allocations that went to production ECUs.
• Deep, practical experience with ISO 26262 (esp. Parts 3–6) and familiarity with SOTIF (ISO 21448).
• Hands‑on collaboration with V&V, including HIL/vehicle test design, coverage tactics, and KPI definition.
• Working knowledge of embedded software fundamentals (C/C++ reading proficiency, Python for analysis/prototyping), and common automotive interfaces (CAN, SOME/IP)
• Excellent cross‑functional communication, influence, and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Allocate safety requirements (system → software component) with clear interfaces, state machines, timing/resource budgets, and acceptance criteria.
• Define and guide implementation of safety mechanisms (e.g., diagnostics, redundancy, watchdogs, plausibility checks, safety envelope monitors, degraded modes/safe states) and ensure their effectiveness is verified.
• Partner with V&V to design safety verification strategies (unit/integration/system/HIL/vehicle), derive objective pass/fail criteria and safety KPIs, and ensure evidence completeness for the Safety Case.
• Contribute evidence and risk assessments to the Safety Case and present rationale/evidence to internal/external stakeholders and auditors.
• Lead/participate in analyses (FMEA/FMEDA, FTA, interface hazard reviews, resource/timing analyses) and feed findings into design updates and confirmation measures.
• Collaborate tightly with Safety Architecture (for HARA/goal setting/ASIL decomposition), Systems Engineering (for architecture cohesion and ICDs), ML Safety (for data/ODD/monitoring strategies), and Cybersecurity (for safety–security co-engineering).
• Drive change impact analysis for CRs, deviations, and waivers to preserve safety intent and traceability across releases.
• Conduct focused reviews on requirements, designs, and test plans to close gaps quickly.

Skills

ISO 26262

Safety concepts

V&V collaboration

HIL/vehicle test design

C/C++ reading proficiency

Python for analysis

CAN & SOME/IP interfaces

Documentation skills

Systems engineering collaboration

Safety case evidence

Requirement allocations

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS, EE, ME or related

Job description

Woven by Toyota is seeking a systems-minded safety engineer to transform safety goals into verifiable design; you will work at the intersection of system architecture and implementation, allocating safety requirements and ensuring robust safety mechanisms across AD/ADAS software.

This is a hands-on, IC role collaborating with AD/ADAS feature teams, V&V, ML Safety, and Cybersecurity to ship safe software for mass production.