Senior Manager, Functional Safety
We're Cruise, a self-driving service designed for the cities we love.
We’re building the world’s most advanced, self-driving vehicles to safely connect people to the places, things, and experiences they care about. We believe self-driving vehicles will help save lives, reshape cities, give back time in transit, and restore freedom of movement for many.
Cruisers have the opportunity to grow and develop while learning from leaders at the forefront of their fields. With a culture of internal mobility, there's an opportunity to thrive in a variety of disciplines. This is a place for dreamers and doers to succeed.
If you are looking to play a part in making a positive impact in the world by advancing the revolutionary work of self-driving cars, join us.
What you’ll be doing:
- This is a combined role covering both engineering and people management
- Lead and continue building a team of Functional Safety Engineers to support all aspects of autonomous vehicle development across the company
- Set priorities and targets for the team, plan and allocate resources to support dynamic business needs
- Develop Cruise’s Functional Safety strategy from concept to implementation.
- Work with cross-functional teams to develop Hazard and Risk Analysis (HARA), Safety Concepts, DFMEA, and other Functional Safety work products for various systems. Get the buy-in from system owners, follow through the validation process
- Develop Functional Safety validation plans and support the execution of the validation tests
- Work closely with internal teams and suppliers to define Functional Safety interfaces between Cruise and its project partners. Review and approve Development Interface Agreement and other necessary Functional Safety documents for suppliers and other external partners
- Develop Functional Safety processes and tools tailored for Cruise’s product and development processes, support the implementation of these processes and tools for the whole organization
What you must have:
- Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, or PhD in an engineering discipline such as Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering
- 5+ years of experience in building and managing high-performance teams
- 10+ years of work experience as a Functional Safety Engineer or closely related role
- Experience driving and influencing as an advocate for safety across all levels of hardware and software development
- Deep knowledge of automotive hardware and/or software development processes and the Systems Engineering V-Model
- Expert knowledge of ISO 26262 and its applications in automotive industries
- Proven track record of successes, e.g. having successfully managed functional safety analyses of a system or product to make it safer
- Ability to articulate technical issues and solutions to all levels of the business, within and beyond the engineering communities
- Ability and mindset to learn new things and evolve established processes to a fast-paced and ever-changing environment suitable for the next generation of technology
- Direct experience in autonomous driving industry as a Functional Safety Engineer or Systems Engineer
- Knowledge and insights about SOTIF
- Our benefits are here to support the whole you:
- Competitive salary and benefits
- 401(k) Cruise matching program
- Medical / dental / vision, AD+D and Life
- One Medical membership
- Flexible vacation and company paid holidays
- Healthy meals and snacks provided for non-remote employees
- Paid parental leave
- Fertility Benefits
- Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, subsidized by Cruise
- Flexible Spending Account
- Monthly wellness stipend
- Pre-tax Commuter Benefit Plan for non-remote employees
- We’re Remote Friendly
- We believe that your value to the team can be provided at a Cruise office or from the comfort of your home. Depending on your function, enjoy the flexibility of remote work and join our growing community of remote employees in the continental United States.
- We’re Integrated
- Through our partnerships with General Motors and Honda, we are the only self-driving company with fully integrated manufacturing at scale.
- We’re Funded
- GM, Honda, Microsoft, SoftBank, & T. Rowe Price, have invested billions in Cruise. Their backing for our technology demonstrates their confidence in our progress, team, and vision and makes us one of the leading autonomous vehicle organizations in the industry. Our deep resources greatly accelerate our operating speed.
- We’re Independent
- We have our own governance, board of directors, equity, and investors. Our independence allows us to not just work on the edge of technology, but also define it.
- We’re Vested
- You won’t just own your work here, you’ll have the potential to own equity in Cruise, too. We are competing in a market that is projected to grow exponentially, which gives our company valuation room to grow.
Cruise LLC is an equal opportunity employer. We strive to create a supportive and inclusive workplace where contributions are valued and celebrated, and our employees thrive by being themselves and are inspired to do the best work of their lives.
We seek applicants of all backgrounds and identities, across race, color, ethnicity, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or parental status, or disability. Applicants will not be discriminated against based on these or other protected categories or social identities. Cruise will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, in accordance with applicable laws.
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