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Staff Systems and Behavioral Safety Engineer

Aurora
Mountain View, California
Full Time
Posted November 20, 2025
$189k - $303k
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Job Description

The Aurora Driver Systems and Safety Engineering team is seeking a professional to define vehicle behaviors, develop safety and operational requirements, analyze system data, and collaborate across teams to ensure the safety and functionality of autonomous vehicles within a safety-critical industry.

Key Responsibilities

  • Define vehicle behaviors, capabilities, and operational contexts
  • Develop Use Cases and Concepts of Operation to support Safety Analysis and requirements development
  • Identify applicable policies and regulations in collaboration with subject matter experts
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to support system architecture definition
  • Develop system-level requirements for autonomous vehicle capabilities and performance metrics
  • Perform data analysis to rationalize system requirements and test coverage
  • Decompose requirements into sub-systems with traceability and support requirement management workflows
  • Facilitate cross-functional development activities, design reviews, and documentation
  • Develop verification and validation strategies and demonstrate coverage against requirements
  • Explore potential system deficiencies and propose statistical approaches for coverage

Requirements

  • Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field
  • Five or more years of experience in a safety critical industry with safety-critical software development standards, software safety fault hazard analysis, and requirements-driven software verification and validation strategies
  • Experience in Python for engineering and data-driven analysis
  • Experience writing testable system-level and software-level requirements
  • Experience assessing software design and performing code reviews
  • Comfortable working with ambiguity, evolving priorities, and challenging problems
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills

Benefits & Perks

Compensation/salary range: 189,000 - 303,000 USD
Annual bonus
Equity compensation
Benefits (unspecified)

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