Staff Systems Engineer - Safety

Latitude AI

$191K — $287K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or advanced degree in a relevant technical field with 2-7 years of applicable experience.
  • Deep understanding of complex systems with systematic software analysis capabilities.
  • Proven expertise in applying safety engineering methodologies like FMEA and FTA.
  • Familiarity with ISO-26262 automotive safety standards and experience with safety-critical software development.
  • Demonstrated success in delivering products that are ASIL D certified.
  • Strong leadership and management experience within safety contexts.
  • Excellent communication skills for translating complex technical concepts to diverse teams.

Responsibilities

  • Own and formalize the safety case framework and documentation across the organization.
  • Develop technical content supporting functional safety claims.
  • Conduct functional safety analyses (HARA, FMEA, FTA, DFA) for assigned functions.
  • Collaborate with product development leads on non-functional safety case claims.
  • Assess technical content for non-functional safety cases, ensuring validity for safety needs.
  • Lead development of software safety architecture for high-performance SOCs.
  • Interface with various engineering teams to ensure traceability of requirements through to design.

Benefits

  • High-quality medical, dental, and vision insurance for individuals and families.
  • Health savings account with employer matching contributions.
  • Employer-matched 401(k) retirement plan with immediate vesting.
  • Unlimited vacation policy and 15 paid holidays annually.
  • Daily lunches, snacks, and beverages in office locations.
  • Support programs for adoption, surrogacy, and backup childcare.
  • Robust professional development reimbursement and wellness stipends.
Full Job Description
Meet the team:

The Functional Safety team ensures the product meets the safety caliber set forth within the company by leveraging existing standards, but also creating novel safety approaches to the novel problem of L3 autonomy. Our team is responsible for the entire safety lifecycle during the core development and application of the system into a serial-production vehicle. Come help us make the world safer, and the task of driving more relaxed.

Our team leverages a variety of backgrounds, ranging from robotics, systems engineering, high performance software development, and embedded and industrial software engineering. We collaborate closely with experts in machine learning, prediction/planning, sensor processing, and simulation from across Latitude AI's product development teams to understand the systems they build, the possible failure modes, and how to detect and respond to those failures.

What you'll do:
  • 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

What you'll need to succeed:
  • 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

Nice to have:
  • 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

What we offer you:
  • Competitive compensation packages
  • High-quality individual and family medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Health savings account with available employer match
  • Employer-matched 401(k) retirement plan with immediate vesting
  • Employer-paid group term life insurance and the option to elect voluntary life insurance
  • Paid parental leave
  • Paid medical leave
  • Unlimited vacation
  • 15 paid holidays
  • Daily lunches, snacks, and beverages available in all office locations
  • Pre-tax spending accounts for healthcare and dependent care expenses
  • Pre-tax commuter benefits
  • Monthly wellness stipend
  • Adoption/Surrogacy support program
  • Backup child and elder care program
  • Professional development reimbursement
  • Employee assistance program
  • Discounted programs that include legal services, identity theft protection, pet insurance, and more
  • Company and team bonding outlets: employee resource groups, quarterly team activity stipend, and wellness initiatives

Learn more about Latitude's team, mission and career opportunities at lat.ai!

The expected base salary range for this full-time position in California is $191,920 - $287,880 USD. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Latitude employees are also eligible to participate in Latitude's annual bonus programs, equity compensation, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.

Candidates for positions with Latitude AI must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire. Visa sponsorship is available for this position.

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