Safety System Engineer

Sunnyvale, California USAfull timeOn Site

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Wayve Safety System Engineer at Wayve leading functional safety activities for Automated Driving System (ADS) across vehicle platforms. Responsible for risk assessment, safety concept development, verification, and validation to support safety cases.

Responsibilities

🧩 What you’ll be working on:
Build and maintain Item Definition work products for each vehicle platform and safety-critical integration.
Conduct HARAs, FMEAs and FTAs to identify risk and define safety concepts that reduce risk to an acceptable level.
Work with design teams on system architectures that satisfy the safety concept, including decomposition decisions and derived software and external requirements.
Support software teams in implementing safety requirements on target hardware.
Define test specifications across integration levels, including vehicle-level verification and validation of the safety concept.
Build structured safety cases using clear claims, arguments and evidence.
Contribute to production safety work products and evolve safety processes with process and compliance teams for certification activities.
🙌 You should apply if:
You have at least 5 years of hands-on automotive functional safety experience applying ISO 26262 across different systems, with strong working knowledge of Parts 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9.
You have conducted vehicle-level testing at proving grounds to verify and validate safety concepts.
You are experienced in risk analysis and safety engineering techniques such as HARA, FMEA and FTA, and can translate findings into practical safety concepts, architectures and requirements.

Qualification

Ability to work across software

Required

5+ years of hands-on automotive functional safety experience applying ISO 26262
Strong working knowledge of ISO 26262 Parts 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 9
Experience conducting vehicle-level testing at proving grounds
Experienced in risk analysis and safety engineering techniques such as HARA, FMEA, and FTA
Ability to work across software, hardware, systems, and external partners

Benefits

Medical
Dental
Vision
Equity/RSU
Parental Leave

Company

Wayve

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