Senior Staff Systems Engineer, AV Behaviors

Stack AV is developing revolutionary AI and advanced autonomous systems designed to enhance safety, reliability, and efficiency of modern operations. They are seeking a detail-oriented system engineer to develop safe, reliable, and performant self-driving systems for autonomous trucks, focusing on autonomy system technologies such as perception, pose estimation, decision making, and motion control.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with Product stakeholders to understand product requirements necessary for a commercially successful product and help develop detailed safety and functional engineering requirements that will result in a system that meets the necessary product objectives to be successful in the market
• Provide guidance, subject matter expertise, and mentorship to the broader product development organization on systems and safety engineering topics
• Identify and implement methodologies for discovery of new/unique behavior scenarios from test data
• Develop and guide simulation scenario test case development for evaluating system performance and behavior
• Develop AV Behavior requirements and metrics to ensure the self driving system behaves in a safe and performant way
• Perform analyses on the Operational Design Domain (ODD), contributing to decisions about what our capability should treat as in-scope

Requirements:

• Demonstrated experience working across highly cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment while maintaining a high degree of engineering rigor
• Exposure to, and familiarity with, software engineering across the full lifecycle, including software requirements development, software design, implementation, and unit & integration testing. Prior experience developing software or working closely with software teams
• Ability to constructively and critically critique software requirements, designs, implementations, analysis, and software test plans and results, particularly as it relates to the behavior of the vehicle within an Operational Design Domain (ODD)
• Experience conducting safety analyses such as Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessments (HARAs), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Systems Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA)
• Experience conducting root cause analysis to determine underlying causes of issues and faults
• Work products are developed in detail-oriented and quantitative approaches
• Clear, concise communication of technical topics
• Working knowledge of safety standards applicable to on-road autonomy such as ISO-26262, ISO 21448 (SOTIF), UL 4600, or equivalent
• Experience applying ISO 21448, Safety of the intended functionality (SOTIF) is appreciated but not required