Staff Engineer, AV Change Management – Assurance

Role Overview

• Lead development and continual improvement of the AV Internal Evaluation Program framework to assess system readiness and organizational maturity.
• Facilitate the Safety Assurance Review Board, ensuring cross-functional alignment on safety case evidence credibility and decision-making.
• Drive the AV Safety & Quality Change Management Program to ensure smooth adoption of new processes, tools, and safety governance expectations.
• Oversee the enterprise-wide AV deviation process, ensuring consistent classification, escalation, and visibility of safety-impacting deviations.
• Develop and maintain the SC3 Document Management System strategy to support traceability, evidence integrity, and scalability.
• Own publication and maintenance of the AV SMS Manual and associated enterprise SMS documentation.
• Align AV SMS safety assurance elements with broader organizational processes, quality systems, and technical governance structures.
• Manage SMS documents, records, and artifacts across controlled repositories including ADS systems.
• Track, analyze, and report Safety Performance Indicators (SPIs) and metric trends to inform internal evaluations and risk identification.
• Conduct quality control reviews of products and artifacts generated through assurance activities to ensure accuracy, completeness, and audit readiness.
• Support development and delivery of training materials and communications for new and evolving AV safety and quality processes.
• Administer and enhance workflows within the AV deviation management toolset to ensure consistent documentation and lifecycle tracking.
• Provide hands-on development and structuring of safety case evidence packages for readiness review discussions.
• Maintain structured document control practices to ensure proper versioning, approvals, traceability, and compliance with SMS expectations.

Requirements

• Proven experience of 10 + years in quality management, change management, or safety management in a safety critical industry: Autonomy, Automotive, Nuclear, Aviation or similar
• Proven experience of 5 + years leading cross-functional boards/committees, drive decisions, resolve conflicts, and maintain traceability and accountability across engineering, quality and operations.
• Hands-on experience planning and executing enterprise change (process, tools, policy), including stakeholder mapping, adoption metrics, communications, and training
• Deep familiarity with document management systems and records controls (versioning, approvals, meta data, retention)
• Ability to define SPIs, build trend dashboards, perform root-cause and leading /lagging analysis, and translate insights into governance actions and evaluation outcomes.
• Experience authoring/structuring arguments and evidence packages; familiarity with Goal Structuring Notation (GSN) or equivalent argumentation patterns
• 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

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