Functional Safety Engineer, Software

Highlights

• Drive safety cases bringing the Kodiak Driver autonomous system to market.
• Shepherd software safety work products through independent safety assessment.
• Support system-level testing for driverless trucks from safety perspective.

What they offer

• Competitive compensation package including equity and biannual bonuses
• Excellent Medical, Dental, and Vision plans including infertility benefits
• Flexible PTO and generous parental leave policies
• Dog-friendly office with free catered lunch, stocked kitchen and free EV charging
• Long Term Disability, Short Term Disability, Life Insurance
• Wellbeing benefits including Headspace, One Medical, Gympass, Spring Health
• Fidelity 401(k)
• Commuter, FSA, Dependent Care FSA, HSA
• Incentive programs including referral and patent bonuses

Ideal candidate

Proactive, collaborative engineer who cares about autonomous vehicle safety and thrives structuring complex evidence. Comfortable building safety arguments and guiding software teams toward rigorous, certifiable outcomes.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher in software, electrical, mechanical or related engineering
• Professional experience in a high tech environment
• Experience with functional safety assessment, preferably at vehicle component level
• Applied ISO 26262 standard to guide safety case
• Good communication skills with collaborative approach
• Proactive, hands-on problem solver
• Comfortable preparing safety argumentation
• Ability to structure project tasks and drive evidence development among teams
• Experience with Part 4, 6, 8 and 9 of ISO 26262 with emphasis on Part 6 for vehicles
• Experience with system and software level verification and validation of vehicles
• Knowledge of software configuration management and software quality assurance