Nuro · 2 days ago
Senior Systems Safety Engineer
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$176K/yr - $265K/yr
3+ years expNuro is a self-driving technology company on a mission to make autonomy accessible to all. The role involves driving system-level safety architecture and requirements for the Nuro Driver, ensuring compliance with automotive safety standards and leading safety analyses to identify risks and derive safety requirements.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Autonomous VehiclesRoboticsTransportation
Responsibilities
Drive the system-level safety architecture and requirements for the Autonomy Hardware and Firmware of the Nuro Driver, ensuring compliance with automotive safety standards such as ISO 26262 and ISO 21448
Decompose vehicle-level Safety Goals into a cohesive Functional Safety Concept (FSC) and refine it into a detailed Technical Safety Concept (TSC), defining system-level safety mechanisms, fault detection and reaction strategies, and safe states
Develop the system-level SOTIF specification for the Autonomy Hardware and Firmware of the Nuro Driver, defining performance targets and acceptance criteria for safety-critical systems like Autonomy Sensors and Compute
Lead, perform, and review system-level safety analyses, including Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment (HARA), Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Dependent Failure Analysis (DFA) to identify risks and derive safety requirements
Work closely with controls, embedded SW, and HW teams and external partners to review and recommend changes to existing requirements and test plans
Support the verification and validation efforts by reviewing and suggesting additional tests and implementing test cases on SIL/HIL environments
Analyze and interpret test data from simulation, HIL/SIL, and on-road vehicle testing to validate the effectiveness of safety mechanisms and identify residual risks
Support and maintain sections of the overall Safety Case pertaining to platform systems utilizing structures like GSN and focusing on residual risk assessment and clear argumentation
Qualification
Required
Hands on experience in systems engineering and automotive functional safety (ISO 26262) including requirements generation
3+ years of experience in system architecture for safety critical systems
3+ years of experience working on fault management or diagnostics systems for automotive applications
Ability to read code in C and write code in Python / MATLAB
Strong communication skills - both verbal and written
Preferred
AV or ADAS background
Familiarity with other safety standards such as STPA, ISO-21448
Experience developing and articulating a Safety Case based on UL4600
Experience testing in HIL environments or on road testing
Benefits
Annual performance bonus
Equity
Competitive benefits package
Company
Nuro
Nuro is a robotics company specializing in the development of autonomous driving technologies.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$2.34BKey Investors
Disney AcceleratorTiger Global ManagementT. Rowe Price
2025-08-21Series E· $97M
2025-04-09Series E· $106M
2024-04-06Secondary Market
Leadership Team
Jiajun Zhu
Co-Founder and Co-CEO
Dave Ferguson
Co-Founder
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