Aurora Innovation is hiring a Systems and Safety Engineer to make an impact on the verification of our autonomous vehicle sensing capabilities. You will define and validate the sensing capabilities of the Aurora Driver to a level of super-human performance and safety, working with world-class engineers to meet ambitious product goals while maintaining a high bar of safety.
What You'll Do
- Own the definition and allocation of requirements within a sensing capability, understanding impacts to interfacing modules, with appropriate decomposition and traceability
- Perform impact analysis that supports product expansion as it relates to requirements, coverage, and risk due to sensing capabilities
- Collaborate closely with Product, Operations, and Autonomy teams to elicit sensing requirements from product definitions and system-level requirements and use cases
- Perform safety analyses (such as HARA, FMEA, STPA etc.) to understand the safety and any risk associated with sensing capabilities
- Define and execute comprehensive Verification & Validation (V&V) activities
- Perform detailed data and kinematics analysis to rationalize the desired requirements and test coverage
- Support requirement management workflows, traceability, and tooling
- Facilitate cross-functional co-development activities and working groups including support to design reviews, reconciliation of requirements, and producing high quality documentation
- Develop and obtain cross functional alignment on novel approaches for systems and safety engineering work
What We're Looking For
- Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field
- 3+ years of experience in systems engineering, safety engineering, or a related field
- Experience writing verifiable functional and non-functional requirements, preferably in autonomous systems
- Experience in a safety critical industry and software development standards, software safety fault/hazard analysis, and requirements-driven software verification and validation strategies
- Proven ability to work in high-ambiguity environments with evolving priorities, while managing diverse stakeholders across software, product, and operations teams
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
Nice to Have
- 5+ years experience deploying safety-critical features or products at scale
- Demonstrated proficiency in the application of ISO 26262, ASPICE, and ISO 21448 (SOTIF)
- Familiarity with the applications of Artificial Intelligence or Autonomous Systems technologies (e.g., Reinforcement Learning, Deep Learning, Machine Learning) to sensing, perception, multi-unit planning, or command and control of autonomous systems
- Familiarity with modern software development practices and designs, unit testing, integration test, and release processes
- Experience with various testing modalities and strategies
Benefits & Compensation
- Salary: $139,000 - $201,000 per year
- Eligible for equity compensation
Work Mode
This position offers a hybrid work mode.
Aurora considers candidates without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy status, parent or caregiver status, ancestry, political affiliation, veteran and/or military status, physical or mental disability, or any other status protected by federal or state law.
