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Autonomous Driving System Safety Lead

Nuro
Mountain View, California
Full Time
Posted November 14, 2025
$213k - $320k
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Job Description

The role involves leading safety assurance for autonomous driving systems, including AI components, by developing safety claims, coordinating cross-functional teams, and ensuring compliance with safety standards to support the deployment of self-driving vehicles.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own and author safety claims in the ADS safety case for onboard and offboard software, including AI components.
  • Coordinate with cross-functional teams to develop system requirements, AI architecture, and safety evidence.
  • Generate and decompose safety claims, delegate to teams, and manage the quality of claims and evidence.
  • Develop counter-arguments to safety claims and ensure they are addressed or mitigated.
  • Review evaluation and validation evidence to support safety claims and work with test teams.
  • Track safety performance indicators and monitor safety metrics during L4 deployment.
  • Escalate technical and safety risks, identify work gaps, and propose mitigation strategies.
  • Support safety research, apply relevant safety standards, and incorporate best practices.

Requirements

  • 5 years of technical work experience in a relevant area, of which 3 years should be in robotics software.
  • Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree, or Doctoral Degree in Computer Science, Math, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Physics, or related field.
  • Working knowledge of and ability to apply systems engineering concepts of requirements, verification, and validation, with a deep understanding of how robotic systems work.
  • Experience working in a safety-critical industry such as robotics, automotive, aviation aerospace, or medical devices for a complex robotic system.
  • Hands-on experience with ISO 21448 and familiarity with ISO 8800.
  • Ability to understand the ADS design, interfaces, and technical capabilities of the system to manage safety claims.
  • Experience in generating atomic safety claims through claim decomposition and managing quality of delegated claims.
  • Experience in generating counter-arguments and challenges to safety claims, and ensuring they are addressed or mitigated.
  • Experience reviewing and assessing evidence from evaluation and validation activities as arguments for safety case claims, working closely with VV test teams.
  • Ability to develop processes for and coordinate the tracking of safety performance indicators from various Systems Engineering and Software Evaluation teams.
  • Experience in escalating functional and technical risks, identifying missing work items such as test gaps, ADS design risks, and AI architecture insufficiencies, and proposing mitigations to senior leadership.
  • Support safety research and identify appropriate technical standards and best practices to support the safety case, applying them effectively.

Benefits & Perks

Compensation/salary range between $213,480 and $319,720 depending on experience and qualifications
Annual performance bonus
Equity
Competitive benefits package

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