Autonomous Vehicle Safety & Compliance Engineer bei Lyft
Lyft · San Francisco, Vereinigte Staaten Von Amerika · Hybrid
- Senior
- Optionales Büro in San Francisco
At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive.
We care deeply about delivering the best transportation experience; this means the best experience for the passenger and the best experience for the driver. We believe this quality of service can only be achieved with a deep understanding of our world, our cities, our streets… how they evolve, how they breathe. We embrace the powerful positive impact autonomous transportation will bring to our everyday lives and with our ambition, we will become a leader in the development and operation of such vehicles. Thanks to our network, with hundreds of millions of rides every year, we have the means to make autonomy a safe reality.
As a member of the Office of Safety and Compliance, you’ll drive the safety of our autonomous vehicle efforts and thereby revolutionize transportation. You will empower our team to deliver complex projects to ensure safety and compliance, while coordinating interactions with other teams and external organizations.
The position reports to: Director - Office of Safety and Compliance (OSaC), in the Legal Department
Responsibilities:
- Develop and assess our partner’s safety cases for vehicle platforms including driving technical safety requirements and processes based on AV industry standards and technical best practices, including UL 4600, ISO 26262 - Functional Safety, and ISO 21448 - SOTIF
- Support onsite and offsite evaluation of outside partner companies’ AV safety programs. Conduct technical engineering audits, testing, assessments, and evaluations, and document thoroughly with engineering reports
- Conduct onsite public-road and closed-course engineering testing and analysis to quantify safety readiness, safety incident investigation, risk, compliance and safety decision making
- Utilize Quantified Risk Management (QRM) tools and methods (FMEDA, DFMEA, FTA and DFA) to conduct quantified technical risk assessments for potential safety issues with partner companies’ vehicles, operation, and cybersecurity systems
- Develop and monitor vehicle performance and risk metrics, along with other technical considerations, to support grounding, pausing, and return to operation of partner vehicles on the Lyft platform
- Be an active participant in autonomous vehicle safety process development, working closely with both Business and Legal teams in supporting functionality definition from a safety perspective
- Support our partners’ complex safety incident investigations, drive resolution, and help to create and maintain appropriately documented incident and issue reports
- Ensure Lyft’s AV platforms meet FMVSS regulations, state codes, reporting and other applicable standards, regulations, and orders
- Maintain exhaustive “source-of-truth” list of technical safety audit and assessment, testing, risk, and compliance requirements
- Conduct technical engineering reviews and audits to evaluate compliance to tech requirements for new and existing products and processes
- Create and maintain documentation of safety assessments, risk decisions, and compliance
- Work with Legal Compliance office to coordinate tech compliance with operational and reporting compliance
- Occasional domestic travel, sometimes short notice
Experience:
- 5+ years of experience in a relevant field such as Systems engineering, ADAS/ADK design and development, Sensor (RADAR/LIDAR/Camera) design and development or Functional safety engineering,
- Direct Experience in AV functional safety and SOTIF approaches & related V&V methodology
- Detailed experience with the Validation and Verification of complex autonomous systems
- Experience with emerging EU/UK homologation regulations as applied to autonomous vehicles and ADS/ADK equipment.
- Technical Skills and Knowledge
- Detailed, hands-on experience in the following areas
- Systems engineering and architecture of complex systems.
- Comprehensive knowledge and experience with designing, executing and analyzing the results from validation and verification testing. Data Analysis and reporting skills to effectively extract conclusions from data sets is a plus.
- Knowledge of and demonstrated hands on experience with UL 4600, ISO 26262, 21448, IEC 61508 and other industry standards
- Safety Analysis methodologies – Proficiency in performing and guiding teams on HARA, FMEA, Fault Tree Analysis, Hazard Operability Study
- Experience with requirements management, traceability and decomposition. Demonstrated knowledge with JAMA
- Detailed, hands-on experience in the following areas
- Soft Skills and Leadership
- Leadership - Documented evidence of technical leadership of safety teams and junior engineers. Must be capable of driving safety initiatives with internal and external stakeholders including senior personnel.
- Communication – Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Must be able to articulate complex safety concepts with a diverse cross functional team that may be non-technical.
- Collaboration & Teamwork – Ability to work in a very fast paced environment and be able to guide and influence other team members.
- Problem Solving – Strong analytical and reasoning abilities and the ability to apply these to identify hazards and develop mitigation strategies
- Attention to Detail - Meticulous approach to documentation, analysis and verification to ensure compliance.
- Required: Bachelor's degree in engineering (Electrical, Mechanical, Systems, Automotive or Computer)
- Preferred: Master’s degree in relevant engineering discipline
Benefits:
- Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled
- Mental health benefits
- Family building benefits
- Child care and pet benefits
- 401(k) plan to help save for your future
- In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have discretionary paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
- Subsidized commuter benefits
- Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program
Lyft is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace that fosters belonging. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
Lyft highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Lyft considers working in the office at least 3 days per week to be an essential function of this hybrid role. Your recruiter can share more information about the various in-office perks Lyft offers. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year. #Hybrid
The expected base pay range for this position in the San Francisco area is $148,000 - $185,000. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Range is not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.
Total compensation is dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience, and geographic location. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.
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