System Safety Engineer

Responsibilities

• Perform system-level safety activities including technical safety concept development and safety requirement derivation per ISO 26262
• Conduct system-level safety analyses such as system FMEA, FTA, and dependent failure analysis
• Support ASIL decomposition and safety requirement allocation across system, hardware, and software elements
• Derive software safety requirements from Technical Safety Concepts and ensure flow-down to architecture
• Review software architecture and design for ASIL compliance, partitioning strategies, and safety mechanisms
• Perform or support software safety analyses (SW-FTA, SW-FMEA) and dependent failure analysis
• Develop and maintain software safety plans and contribute to software safety case closure
• Guide software development teams on compliant practices including MISRA and CERT coding standards
• Maintain end-to-end safety traceability using tools like JAMA or DOORS
• Engage with external assessors and support third-party audits

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline
• 3+ years of functional safety experience with a focus on software-level safety development
• Hands-on experience producing safety work products across the V-cycle
• Experience collaborating across software, hardware, and systems engineering teams
• Familiarity with requirements management and traceability tools (JAMA, DOORS, Polarion)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with OS, device drivers, and platform-level safety
• Familiarity with software safety analyses (SW-FTA, SW-FMEA) or safety case development
• Familiarity with software tool classification and qualification per ISO 26262 Part 8
• Experience across vehicle domains such as ADAS, propulsion, chassis, or body electronics
• Exposure to ASPICE (Automotive SPICE) software process assessments
• Experience working with third-party assessors through audit cycles

About the Company

Applied Intuition is powering the future of physical AI, creating the digital infrastructure needed to bring intelligence to every moving machine on the planet, servicing automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining, and agriculture industries.