Safety System Engineer

🧠 Your day-to-day

You will lead functional safety activities for Wayve's ADS and its integration into current and future vehicle platforms, as well as third-party safety-critical systems. Working closely with internal engineering teams, external partners and other safety experts, you will build a deep understanding of the system, assess risk, shape the safety concept and architecture, define verification and validation, and develop the evidence needed to support a robust safety case.

🧩 What you’ll be working on

• Build and maintain Item Definition work products for each vehicle platform and safety-critical integration.

• Conduct HARAs, FMEAs and FTAs to identify risk and define safety concepts that reduce risk to an acceptable level.

• Work with design teams on system architectures that satisfy the safety concept, including decomposition decisions and derived software and external requirements.

• Support software teams in implementing safety requirements on target hardware.

• Define test specifications across integration levels, including vehicle-level verification and validation of the safety concept.

• Build structured safety cases using clear claims, arguments and evidence.

• Contribute to production safety work products and evolve safety processes with process and compliance teams for certification activities.

🙌 You should apply if

• You have at least 5 years of hands-on automotive functional safety experience applying ISO 26262 across different systems, with strong working knowledge of Parts 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9.

• You have conducted vehicle-level testing at proving grounds to verify and validate safety concepts.

• You are experienced in risk analysis and safety engineering techniques such as HARA, FMEA and FTA, and can translate findings into practical safety concepts, architectures and requirements.

• You can work effectively across software, hardware, systems and external partners, and are comfortable debating safety-related trade-offs at different levels of the organisation.

• You are pragmatic in balancing risk and benefit, especially in a fast-moving development environment, while maintaining high safety standards.

• You are a self-starter who can move between long-term, high-level safety thinking and detailed subsystem or application-level problem solving, and you are confident challenging ideas while remaining open to constructive feedback.

✨ Nice to have

• Practical experience with ISO 26262 Part 6, including production software development and software-tool qualification.

• Experience managing suppliers of safety-related hardware or software, including DIA definition, supplier audits and assessments.

• Experience developing safety cases for automated driving systems, including computer-vision-based systems, and enough knowledge of neural networks to discuss safety assurance approaches with scientists and engineers.

• Experience with SOTIF, including identifying triggering conditions and defining testing and validation strategies.

• Operational safety experience, including identifying operational risks and defining training or procedures for safe public-road testing.

🌱 Not ticking every box? That’s totally okay! If you’re passionate about autonomy and keen to learn, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every requirement.