Staff Functional Safety Engineer

Summary

Join Latitude AI, a leading automated driving technology company, and contribute to the development of hands-free driver-assist systems for Ford vehicles. As a Functional Safety Engineer, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the safety and reliability of our autonomous driving technology. You will lead functional safety activities, translate ISO-26262 requirements, build safety software, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. This position requires a Bachelor's degree in a related field and 7+ years of experience (or equivalent). Latitude AI offers a competitive compensation package, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional development.

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 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 with complex software architecture and development (C/C++)
• Experience with safety related operating systems (QNX, Autosar) and runtime software environments, as well as Linux
• Proven experience in developing embedded software or robotics software on a resource-constrained compute platform
• Ability to design software components and systems and clearly communicate your designs through documents, diagrams, and presentations
• 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
• Strong systems engineering fundamentals
• Previous demonstrated experience delivering products following the safety lifecycle

Responsibilities

• Lead functional safety activities across the software organization to design safety into our system and onboard autonomy and platform software from the ground up
• Translate the requirements in ISO-26262 part 6 (Software) into specific actions for the software team to develop, verify and release ASIL rated software
• Build/prototype functional safety software development for a safety-critical application on a resource-constrained SOC
• Lead the software safety architecture development and Runtime on high performance SOCs
• Create, coordinate and track requirements and processes for embedded high-performance software development activities, including concept, design, and verification and validation
• 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
• Create automated unit and integration tests that verify the software works as expected and meets the requirements
• Lead safety activities such as qualification of pre-existing software components and confidence in the use of tools
• Contribute and support the development of the complete system safety case for our system
• Work with project management to develop, document, and allocate various teams’ resources for the initiation and implementation of functional safety processes and improvements

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience applying functional safety concepts to autonomous vehicles and/or high-performance computing a major plus
• 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
• Experience creating software tools to analyze logged data and root-cause events
• Experience with design and architecture documentation, such as UML and SysML
• Experience with AUTOSAR development

Benefits

• 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
• Complimentary daily lunches, beverages, and snacks for onsite employees
• 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