Staff Engineer, AV Safety Risk Management & Assurance

Role Overview

• Evolve the AV Safety Risk Management (SRM) framework and documentation to reflect modern, scalable, and technology‑driven safety practices.
• Define and enhance structured approaches for AV hazard identification, taxonomy management, and SRM decision‑making grounded in consistency and organizational alignment.
• Introduce and champion the use of emerging analytical models, data‑driven insights, and modern toolsets to deepen understanding of the AV risk profile.
• Strengthen alignment of SRM activities with cross‑functional partners (e.g., Software Validation, Functional Safety, Operational Safety) to drive integrated safety decisions.
• Establish governance and strategic direction for how hazard analyses and safety risk assessments are applied across AV programs.
• Develop strategies for AV hazard risk register visibility and reporting to leadership, enabling proactive risk posture management.
• Shape training and communication strategies that elevate organizational maturity in SRM concepts, tools, and decision‑making.
• Guide the long‑term roadmap for SRM tools and digital capabilities, emphasizing efficiency, traceability, and advanced modeling.
• Lead execution of structured hazard identification activities and apply SRM methods (SRAs, ERCs) using modern analytical approaches.
• Maintain, monitor, and report on the hazard risk register, ensuring accuracy, traceability, and meaningful decision‑support outputs.
• Build, refine, and support SRM tools that integrate data, enable automation, and improve the fidelity of safety insights.
• Apply and scale the hazard taxonomy across systems, tools, and analyses to support consistent organizational use.
• Perform high‑quality SRM analyses and ensure the technical accuracy of all products generated through SRM processes.
• Use advanced modeling techniques and the latest data technologies to detect patterns, quantify risk exposure, and support safety decision‑making for AV products.
• Collaborate with technical partners to embed SRM elements into upstream and downstream development workflows (e.g., validation, effectiveness, operations).
• Develop SRM guidance materials, training modules, examples, and technical communication artifacts to support adoption and capability growth.

Requirements

• Proven experience of 10+ years in risk management, actuarial services, quantitative analyses and/or similar in a safety critical industry: Autonomy, Automotive, Nuclear, Aviation or similar
• Proven experience of 3+ years implementing SMS and/or programs which support SMS within a software development and operational organization
• Experience providing independent assessment of quantitative tools and metrics for hazard triaging, risk assessment, validation, and continual monitoring operational performance
• Experience leading sophisticated, fast-paced programs with broad scope and enterprise level visibility spanning multiple teams and organizations, often with conflicting priorities and schedules
• Thrive in ambiguity, crafting simplicity and order
• Effective at building consensus across different functions
• Self-motivation and enthusiasm to lead complex programs, develop teams, promote collaboration, encourage standard methodologies, and constantly improve.

Benefits

• From day one, we're looking out for your well-being–at work and at home–so you can focus on realizing your ambitions.