Wayve
Safety System Engineer
Sunnyvale, California USA +3 · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Location
- Sunnyvale, California USA
London, United Kingdom
Remote, Germany
Yokohama, Japan - Experience
- At least 5 years of hands-on automotive functional safety experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship where applicable.
About the job
Leads functional safety assurance for Wayve’s automated driving system and its integration with vehicle platforms and other safety-critical systems.
What you'll do
- Develop safety concepts, architectures, requirements, and verification and validation plans using risk analyses such as HARA, FMEA, and FTA.
- Build and maintain platform-specific safety work products and structured safety cases with supporting claims, arguments, and evidence.
- Support safety implementation, vehicle-level testing, production safety work products, and certification processes.
What they ask for
- At least 5 years of hands-on automotive functional safety experience applying ISO 26262 across different systems, with working knowledge of Parts 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 9.
- Experience conducting vehicle-level testing at proving grounds to verify and validate safety concepts.
- Experience in risk analysis and safety engineering techniques, including HARA, FMEA, and FTA, and translating findings into safety concepts, architectures, and requirements.
- Ability to collaborate across software, hardware, systems, and external partners.
Nice to have
- Practical ISO 26262 Part 6 experience, including production software development and software-tool qualification.
- Experience with safety cases for automated driving systems, suppliers, SOTIF, or operational safety.
Tools
ISO 26262, HARA, FMEA, FTA, SOTIF
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