Safety System Engineer

Highlights

• Lead functional safety for Wayve's AV2.0 end-to-end AI driving system.
• Design safety assurance framework scaling across platforms and environments.
• Define vehicle-level tests and build structured safety cases with evidence.

What they offer

• Meaningful equity in long-term success
• Relocation support
• Learning and development budgets with training and conference support
• Health insurance and dental
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Retirement or pension where applicable
• Access to therapists and wellbeing partnerships

Ideal candidate

Pragmatic self-starter with deep automotive safety experience who balances risk and pace without compromising standards. You collaborate across software, hardware and partners and care about making autonomous vehicles provably safe.

Requirements

• At least 5 years hands-on automotive functional safety applying ISO 26262 across systems
• Strong working knowledge of ISO 26262 Parts 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9
• Conducted vehicle-level testing at proving grounds to verify safety concepts
• Experienced in HARA, FMEA and FTA translating findings into safety concepts and requirements
• Able to work across software, hardware, systems and external partners on safety trade-offs
• Pragmatic balancing risk and benefit in fast-moving environment while maintaining standards