Safety Validation Lead, Scenarios

What you'll do

• Define scenario relevance and coverage for operating domains; maintain a coherent catalog and defend its sufficiency.
• Build and maintain tools for scenario extraction, coverage queries, catalog freshness, and regression testing.
• Own log-based scenario extraction and criticality measures, adapt standardized crash-avoidance suites, and define what scenario results can support.

What they ask for

• Hands-on experience with ASAM OpenSCENARIO and OpenDRIVE, ISO 21448 (SOTIF), and ISO 34502.
• Strong Python skills and direct experience working with large volumes of vehicle log data; built tooling used by other engineers.
• Hands-on experience with crash-avoidance portions of published consumer test protocols, such as Euro NCAP's Crash Avoidance protocols in the 2026 series, the ADAS component of US NCAP, or equivalent.
• Ability to distinguish claims, arguments, and evidence, and explain what results support.

Nice to have

• Proving-ground or closed-course test execution, including instrumented targets and test equipment.
• Experience with falsification, adversarial scenario search, criticality-driven parameter sampling, or contributing scenario-based evidence to a safety case.

Pay

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

Tools

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

AI focus

Use and shape AI tooling for safety analysis, including log-event classification and clustering, scenario variant generation and stress-testing, catalog gap checks, and mapping published protocols to the company taxonomy. Generated scenarios are hypotheses to verify, not proof of coverage; validation claims require human judgment and traceable justification.