[Hiring] Senior Software Safety Engineer @NVIDIA

Role Description

NVIDIA Halos is the full-stack, comprehensive safety system that unifies autonomous machines architecture, AI models, chips, software, tools, and services to ensure the safe development and deployment of Physical AI. We are actively seeking a Senior SW Safety Engineer to join the Halos team and collaborate closely with other teams across NVIDIA working on autonomous vehicle and robotics safety.

• Be pivotal in ensuring the safety of our AI-based autonomous system software.
• Engage with a diverse team of engineers across the entire DRIVE platform and related research unit.
• Collaborate with teams dedicated to robotics, humanoids, industry safety, and other safety-critical applications across NVIDIA.
• Guide teams to specify, build, implement, and verify safety requirements across our software stack from drivers and acceleration libraries to AI-based technologies.
• Help implement our Product Life Cycle to integrate the process principles of AI safety.
• Engage in customer interaction and international standardization activities related to safety of Artificial Intelligence.
• Support system safety activities including decomposition of safety requirements, system and component level build analysis (FTA, DFA, CCF, FMEA, etc.), and architectural safety analysis across hardware and software boundaries.
• Collaborate with external certification bodies, assessors, and regulators to present, defend, and justify safety arguments and evidence.

Qualifications

• BS, MS, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of shown experience in Artificial Intelligence and SW safety related processes, methodologies, tools.
• Experience in AI safety methods and tools (adaptability testing, uncertainty evaluation, out of distribution detection, and other related methods).
• Familiarity with system software development and embedded platforms.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in reviewing existing processes and finding gaps to suggest improvements.
• Experience producing safety plans, safety analyses reports, safety case documentation, and evidence packets in support of safety certification and audit activities.

Requirements

• Strong background in safety standards (ISO PAS 8800, ISO/IEC TR 5469, ISO 21448, ISO 26262, IEC 61508).
• Background in system safety methodologies & practices (HARA, FMEA, FTA, STPA).
• Hands-on experience with innovative systems engineering methodologies.
• Hands-on experience in autonomous systems.
• Success applying the V-Model to sophisticated AI-based engineering projects.

Benefits

• Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD.
• You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Company Description

NVIDIA is widely regarded as a leading company in technology with groundbreaking developments in High-Performance Computing, Artificial Intelligence, and Visualization.