Atoms
Functional Safety Lead
$182K–$238K
San Francisco, CA +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 1, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 8+ years; no alternatives stated.
About the job
Own functional safety analysis and change-impact assessment for an automated vehicle platform and sensor suite, while building reusable methods and tools that help safety case engineers maintain traceable evidence.
What you'll do
- Lead hazard, fault, failure, and sensor-safety analyses; derive safety goals and requirements and maintain hazard-to-verification traceability.
- Assess how hardware, software, platform, sensor, and operating-domain changes affect the safety argument and release decisions.
- Develop reusable safety-analysis methods and tooling, including AI-assisted analysis, change triage, and traceability checks.
What they ask for
- 8+ years in functional safety in a safety-critical hardware domain, with hands-on analysis experience.
- Demonstrated ownership of HARA, FMEA, and FTA on shipped systems.
- Fluency in ISO 26262, ISO 21448 (SOTIF), and UL 4600.
- Real hardware and electrical depth; programming ability in Python or similar; and experience building a tool, script, template, or pipeline adopted by other engineers.
Nice to have
- Experience authoring or defending a safety case to an external party.
- Functional safety certification such as TÜV FSEng, or equivalent demonstrated depth; experience with fault injection, HIL, or automated safety verification pipelines.
Pay
$182,000 - $238,000 per year USD (base salary)
Tools
ISO 26262, ISO 21448 (SOTIF), UL 4600, Python, HIL
AI focus
Use and shape AI tooling for failure-mode generation and stress testing, analysis gap checks, standards and requirements research, and first-pass change triage; verify generated outputs with human judgment and traceable justification.
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