Atoms
Lead Safety Case Engineer
$182K–$230K
San Francisco, CA +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 9+ years; deep expertise in at least two of functional safety, autonomous behavior, and fleet operations, and working fluency in the third.
About the job
Leads the development, review, and ongoing governance of a production system safety case, ensuring its claims are supported by appropriate evidence.
What you'll do
- Own and defend a scoped safety case from drafting through sign-off, maintaining it as dependencies evolve.
- Define safety argument boundaries and build Claim-Argument-Evidence structures; evaluate evidence and collaborate with Functional Safety, Scenario Validation, and Fleet Operations.
- Lead formal safety reviews, improve shared safety methodologies and tooling, and develop AI-assisted safety engineering workflows.
What they ask for
- 9+ years of cross-functional experience spanning functional safety, autonomous behavior, and fleet operations, with deep expertise in at least two and working fluency in the third.
- Authored and defended a structured safety argument (GSN or CAE equivalent) for a production system.
- Demonstrated mastery of hazard analysis methods paired with scenario-based validation strategies.
- Proficiency in functional programming (e.g., Python).
Pay
$182,000 - $230,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
GSN, CAE, HARA, FMEA, FTA, ISO 26262, ISO 21448 (SOTIF), Python
AI focus
Pioneer AI-assisted safety workflows to draft from templates, stress-test hazard sets, cross-check scenario coverage, maintain traceability, and flag invalidated claims; treat AI outputs as hypotheses or drafts.
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