Staff Systems Engineer - Safety

Latitude AI develops automated driving technologies for Ford vehicles, aiming to enhance the driving experience. The Staff Systems Engineer - Safety will lead the safety case framework and collaborate across product development to ensure compliance with safety standards and manage safety analyses.

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 the 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

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics or a related field and 7+ years of relevant experience (or Master's degree and 5+ years of relevant experience, or PhD and 2+ years of relevant experience)
• Strong ability to quickly understand complex systems and perform systematic software analysis
• Practical experience with systems engineering methods applied to complex software systems, including systematic system or software analysis (e.g. 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 successfully delivering ASIL D certified products to the market
• Expertise in safety management and leadership
• Strong systems engineering fundamentals
• Previous demonstrated experience delivering products following the safety lifecycle
• Strong record working in the field of system safety as it relates to software design and development
• Strong engineering communication skills, especially the ability to communicate complex engineering issues to a diverse team
• Experience applying functional safety concepts to autonomous vehicles and/or high-performance computing a major plus
• Experience with applying advanced safety standards beyond ISO 26262 that can be applied to AI components within autonomous systems (such as ISO 21448, 8800, 5469)
• Experience with qualified tool chains, requirements traceability, documentation management, configuration management and change management systems is a major plus
• Knowledge and execution of software quality processes, such as Automotive SPICE, CMMI, is a plus