Safety Validation Lead, Scenarios

What you'll do

• Define scenario relevance and coverage for operating-domain slices; maintain a coherent catalog and identify gaps or staleness.
• Build and maintain tooling for scenario queries, log-based extraction, criticality analysis, and catalog coverage; own regression scenarios.
• Adapt published crash-avoidance protocols, define scenario execution and evidence limits, and defend the combined coverage argument.

What they ask for

• 8+ years in hands-on safety validation, verification, or test engineering for automated vehicles, ADAS, or another safety-critical domain.
• Built or substantially shaped a scenario catalog for a defined operating domain and defended its sufficiency.
• Hands-on with crash-avoidance protocols such as Euro NCAP Crash Avoidance protocols in the 2026 series, the ADAS component of US NCAP, or equivalent.
• Hands-on ASAM OpenSCENARIO and OpenDRIVE; ISO 21448 (SOTIF) and ISO 34502; strong Python and direct work with large vehicle-log datasets.

Nice to have

• Proving-ground or closed-course test execution, including instrumented targets and test equipment.
• Experience in adversarial scenario search, safety-case evidence, traffic safety research, or validation infrastructure.

Pay

$182,000 - $231,000 per year (base salary)

Tools

ASAM OpenSCENARIO, OpenDRIVE, ISO 21448 (SOTIF), ISO 34502, Python

AI focus

Use and shape AI tooling for scenario mining and categorization, criticality assessment, parameter-space search, documentation, log-event classification and clustering, scenario-variant testing, catalog gap checks, and mapping published protocols to the company taxonomy; generated scenarios require human verification and traceable justification.