Principal Engineer, Team Lead – Safety & Targets

Job Description:

  • Lead the Safety & Targets team within the Systems Readiness and Performance organization
  • Drive development and maturation of collision detection and response and imminent collision handling across autonomy, remote vehicle assistance, and operational functions
  • Define safety requirements, thresholds, response behaviors, and validate them
  • Own benchmark programs across safety, comfort, and assertiveness
  • Establish human-driving benchmarks and convert them into measurable acceptance criteria
  • Advance evasive maneuver and preventability modeling
  • Define validation coverage, identify gaps, and work cross-functionally to close them
  • Own hazard analysis, STPA, HAZOP, FMEA, requirements, coverage, and other safety-case evidence
  • Sustain and expand safety-case claims through external assessment and regulatory review
  • Productionize crash database analysis, collision-event ingestion and labeling, and automated monitoring reports
  • Mentor and grow a high-performing engineering team
  • Partner with Autonomy, Infrastructure, Operations, Legal, and Systems teams to improve safety, comfort, assertiveness, and launch readiness
  • Drive system design, verification, validation, and performance-target definition for fully driverless IONIQ 5 robotaxis

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of experience in Systems Engineering, Functional Safety, Autonomous Systems, or Robotics, with deep expertise in one and working knowledge of the others; or Master’s degree/PhD and 5+ years of experience
  • 3+ years of experience leading safety-critical development, validation, or safety assurance programs for autonomous driving or other emerging safety-critical technologies
  • Proven track record of growing small, high-performing teams
  • Experience defining quantitative performance targets and acceptance criteria spanning safety, comfort, and assertiveness
  • Expertise in STPA, HAZOP, FMEA, hazard analysis, and risk assessment
  • Expertise leveraging large-scale simulation, track, and road data
  • Familiarity with SOTIF, ISO 26262, UL4600, AVSC behavior competencies, and other industry standards
  • Proven ability to build consensus across multidisciplinary teams
  • Experience with collision and crash data analysis, public crash databases, and regulatory incident reporting is desirable
  • Strong foundation in statistical methodology, data science, and scientific rigor; proficiency in Python, SQL, and data visualization is desirable
  • Experience with industry benchmarks and human naturalistic driving behavior is desirable
  • Familiarity with ride comfort and motion-sickness modeling, or assertiveness/conservatism driving-policy metrics is desirable
  • Experience presenting safety argumentation to external assessors, regulators, or certification bodies is desirable
  • Experience publishing safety research or white papers, or participating in industry consortia is desirable
  • Experience collaborating within agile environments and global, distributed teams is desirable
  • Excellent communication skills and proactive mindset are desirable
  • Eligibility for employment in the United States is verified through E-Verify

Benefits:

  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • 401(k) with a company match
  • Health savings accounts
  • Life insurance
  • Pet insurance
  • Bonus or company equity may be included
  • Hybrid schedule with in-office time at one of the Boston, Pittsburgh, or Las Vegas locations, or fully remote
  • Inclusive, diverse, progressive global culture
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