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Staff Safety Systems Engineer

Aurora
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Full Time
Posted January 13, 2026
$171k - $247k
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Job Description

The Staff Systems and Safety Engineer at Aurora is responsible for ensuring the dependability, safety, and scalability of cloud-based infrastructure and applications supporting autonomous freight operations, including safety analysis, requirements development, and system validation to support a fleet of autonomous trucks.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop use cases and concepts of operation supporting safety analysis and feature definition for cloud-based services and applications managing autonomous freight.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate product requirements into technical specifications.
  • Define and allocate system requirements across interfaces with proper decomposition and traceability.
  • Perform safety analyses such as HARA, P FMEA, and STPA to ensure dependability of cloud-to-truck integrations.
  • Design and execute verification and validation plans for scalable cloud services ensuring performance and safety.
  • Partner with safety and operations teams to ensure safe and effective use of tooling by dispatchers, specialists, and first responders.
  • Analyze field events and cloud service interruptions to identify design improvements and prevent systemic failures.

Requirements

  • Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field
  • Five or more years experience in systems engineering, safety engineering, or a related field
  • Experience writing verifiable functional and non-functional requirements, preferably in autonomous systems, dependable distributed systems, or system-of-systems contexts
  • Strong foundation in verification and validation methods for safety-critical or mission-critical systems where human-machine interaction is a core component
  • Proven ability to work in high-ambiguity environments with evolving priorities, while managing diverse stakeholders across software, product, and operations teams

Benefits & Perks

Compensation/salary range: $171,000 - $247,000 per year
Annual bonus
Equity compensation
Benefits (unspecified)

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