Systems Engineer, Safety

Pittsburgh, PA, Palo Alto, CA, Detroit, MI

Latitude AI ( lat.ai ) develops automated driving technologies, including L3, for Ford vehicles ’re driven by the opportunity to reimagine what it’s like to drive and make travel safer, less stressful, and more enjoyable for everyone.

When you join the Latitude team, you’ll work alongside leading experts across machine learning and robotics, cloud platforms, mapping, sensors and compute systems, test operations, systems and safety engineering –
all dedicated to making a real, positive impact on the driving experience for millions of people.

As a Ford Motor Company subsidiary, we operate independently to develop automated driving technology at the speed of a technology startup. Latitude is headquartered in Pittsburgh with engineering centers in Dearborn, Mich., and Palo Alto, Calif.

Meet the team:

The Functional Safety team ensures the product meets the safety caliber set forth within the company by leveraging existing standards, but also creating novel safety approaches to the novel problem of L3 autonomy. Our team is responsible for the entire safety lifecycle during the core development and application of the system into a serial-production vehicle. Come help us make the world safer, and the task of driving more relaxed.

Our team leverages a variety of backgrounds, ranging from robotics, systems engineering, high performance software development, and embedded and industrial software engineering. We collaborate closely with experts in machine learning, prediction/planning, sensor processing, and simulation from across Latitude AI’s product development teams to understand the systems they build, the possible failure modes, and how to detect and respond to those failures.

What you’ll do:

• Own the safety case framework including formalizing the framework, process, and supporting documentation and then ensure it’s tracked and used throughout the organization
• Development technical content supporting functional safety case claims/evidence
• Perform functional safety analyses on assigned functions (HARA, FMEA, FTA, DFA)
• Collaborate with leads across product development to create technical content supporting the non-functional safety case claims/evidence such as statistical arguments supporting Perception V&V
• Perform a strategic assessment of technical content supporting non-functional safety case claims/evidence such as working alongside the Test & Software teams in their design of resimulation to ensure it meets our necessary tool validity & capability needs to satisfy our safety case claims
• Lead the software safety architecture development for safety monitors and Runtime on high performance SOCs
• Be the lead interface with the software, system engineering, safety engineering and security teams to drive traceability between system-level requirements and architecture with software safety specifications and design
• Lead safety committee reviews both internally and externally

What you'll need to succeed:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics or a related field and 7+ years of relevant experience (or Master's degree and 5+ years of relevant experience, or PhD and 2+ years of relevant experience)
• Strong ability to quickly understand complex systems and perform systematic software analysis
• Practical experience with systems engineering methods applied to complex software systems, including systematic system or software analysis (e.g. FMEA, FTA, DFA, attack tree analysis)
• Knowledge of automotive functional safety standards (ISO-26262 or similar)
• Experience in safety-critical software development processes
• Expertise in safety management and leadership
• Previous demonstrated experience delivering products following the safety lifecycle
• Strong record working in the field of system safety as it relates to software design and development
• Strong engineering communication skills, especially the ability to communicate complex engineering issues to a diverse team

Nice to have:

• Experience applying functional safety concepts to autonomous vehicles and/or high-performance computing
• Experience with qualified tool chains, requirements traceability,…