Gatik
Senior Systems & Safety Engineer – Drive-by-Wire
$160K–$240K
Santa Clara, CA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 4, 2026
- Location
- Santa Clara, CA
Santa Clara, California, United States - Experience
- 6+ years in vehicle chassis systems, drive-by-wire actuation, or automotive vehicle safety, with extensive ASIL D development experience.
- Education
- B.S. or M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, or Automotive Engineering.
About the job
Design and integrate safety systems for drive-by-wire steering, braking, propulsion, and other chassis actuation on autonomous trucks.
What you'll do
- Define safety architecture for redundant steering, braking, and propulsion control systems, and integrate them with vehicle platforms.
- Develop fault-management and degraded-mode strategies; conduct HARA, FMEA, and FTA analyses and trace safety requirements to controllers, signals, and monitors.
- Support on-vehicle validation, including physical fault-injection testing of actuation fallbacks.
What they ask for
- B.S. or M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, or Automotive Engineering.
- Proficiency in vehicle dynamic modeling, brake and steering topologies, and automotive communication protocols including CAN, CAN-FD, FlexRay, and Automotive Ethernet.
- Direct mastery of ISO 26262 ASIL D safety standards and FMVSS regulations.
- Proficiency with Vector CANoe, CANalyzer, MATLAB/Simulink, and signal analysis software.
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience developing or integrating redundant drive-by-wire systems on commercial trucks.
- Experience with ISO 26262 chassis hardware/software safety certification, or integration of ESC, ABS, and AEB.
Pay
$160,000- $240,000 USD base salary
Tools
ISO 26262, FMVSS, CAN, CAN-FD, FlexRay, Automotive Ethernet, Vector CANoe, MATLAB/Simulink
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