Safety System Engineer

Overview

As Safety System Engineer at Wayve, you lead functional safety for the ADS across current and future vehicle platforms and safety-critical integrations. You shape the safety concept, architecture, verification approach, and the evidence base for a robust safety case, working with internal teams and external partners. You translate risk analyses into practical safety requirements and drive certification-aligned processes. This role offers impact across platforms and real-world driving environments.

Pay / Benefits

• Hybrid working
• Meaningful equity
• Relocation support and visa sponsorship
• Learning and development budgets
• Comprehensive health insurance
• Maternity/paternity leave and wellbeing benefits

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Item Definition work products for each vehicle platform and safety-critical integration
• Conduct HARAs, FMEAs and FTAs to identify risk and define safety concepts
• Collaborate with design teams on system architectures that satisfy the safety concept and derive requirements
• Support software teams in implementing safety requirements on target hardware
• Define test specifications across integration levels and perform vehicle-level verification and validation
• Build structured safety cases with clear claims, arguments and evidence
• Contribute to production safety work products and evolve safety processes for certification activities

Key requirements

• At least 5 years of hands-on automotive functional safety experience applying ISO 26262 across multiple systems (Parts 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9)
• Vehicle-level testing experience at proving grounds
• Experience with risk analysis and safety engineering techniques (HARA, FMEA, FTA) and translating findings into concepts and requirements
• Ability to collaborate across software, hardware, systems and external partners and discuss safety trade-offs at various levels of the organization
• Pragmatic, safety-focused mindset balancing risk and benefit in fast-moving development environments
• Self-starter with capability to alternate between high-level safety thinking and detailed problem solving, and receptive to feedback

• Cross-functional collaboration
• Critical thinking and debate on safety trade-offs
• Ambition and passion for autonomy
• ISO 26262 familiarity (Parts 3, 4, 5, 8, 9)
• HARA, FMEA, FTA risk analysis methods
• System safety concept and architecture design

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