latitude

Staff Systems Engineer - Safety

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At a Glance

Location
Pittsburgh, PA, Palo Alto, CA, Detroit, Michigan, United States
Experience
7+ years
Compensation
ime position in California is $191,920 - $287,880 USD. Actual starting pay will
Posted
2026-07-09T13:17:32-04:00

Key Requirements

Domain Knowledge

  • Automotive
  • Engineering
  • Robotics

Benefits & Perks

Time Off

medical leave Unlimited vacation 15 paid holidays Daily lunche

Health Insurance

edical, dental, and vision insurance Health savings account with available e

Requirements

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)

Expertise in successfully delivering ASIL D certified products to the market

Strong systems engineering fundamentals

Previous demonstrated experience delivering products following the safety lifecycle

Compensation & Benefits

High-quality individual and family medical, dental, and vision insurance

Health savings account with available employer match

Employer-matched 401(k) retirement plan with immediate vesting

Employer-paid group term life insurance and the option to elect voluntary life insurance

Paid parental leave

Paid medical leave

Responsibilities

Development technical content supporting functional safety case claims/evidence

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

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.