Lead Test Engineer AV Safety Assurance

Highlights

• Own safety gates that turn daily AV testing into safety-case evidence.
• Define safety reports that make release decisions explicit about unknowns.
• Coach QA team to apply consistent judgement on near-misses and edge cases.

Ideal candidate

Validation veteran from safety-critical fields who cares about consistent judgement on ambiguous near-misses and turns day-to-day testing into clear, honest evidence for safety decisions.

Requirements

• 7+ years in testing, verification or validation with ownership of a lasting gate or reporting standard
• Experience in safety-critical domain where errors have physical consequences
• Hazard-driven thinking and ability to work directly with STPA, FMEA, HAZOP output
• Comfort stating residual risk and unknowns plainly without overstating or smoothing
• Influence without authority to change how engineers and QA work
• Hands-on verification of metrics in underlying data, not just dashboards
• Fluent use of LLMs for reviewing standards, logs and drafting documents
• Excellent written English for decision-grade safety reporting