Functional Safety for AI – Technical Lead / AI Safety / Automotive / Embedded Systems / ISO 26262

Functional Safety for AI – Technical Lead / AI Safety / Automotive / Embedded Systems / ISO 26262

We are currently partnered with a technology organisation developing advanced AI and embedded systems for safety-critical applications. As part of their continued development of safe, certifiable, and deployable AI-based systems, they are looking to hire a Functional Safety for AI – Technical Lead to drive system safety architecture, lead Safe AI innovation projects, and help shape the organisation’s longer-term safety and AI technology roadmap.

This is a technical leadership role combining system safety architecture, AI/ML, functional safety, innovation, and team leadership. You will work across multiple project horizons and collaborate closely with architecture, safety, engineering, product, and applications teams.

Key responsibilities

• Own the execution of AI safety across projects by translating the broader Safety & AI technology roadmap into innovation projects
• Define system safety concepts for AI-driven features in collaboration with other technical experts
• Translate AI behaviour and system characteristics into appropriate safety requirements and mechanisms
• Design and assess fail-safe and fail-operational behaviours for AI-enabled embedded systems
• Coordinate innovation projects across new product introduction and application engineering teams
• Collaborate with development and enablement teams to evolve engineering processes and incorporate emerging safety standards and practices
• Apply model validation, robustness testing, fault injection, and runtime safety mechanisms to AI-based systems

Key requirements

• Extensive knowledge and practical experience of ISO 26262 / automotive functional safety
• Strong understanding of the safety and AI landscape, particularly for safety-critical embedded applications
• 10+ years of experience architecting, designing, and validating safety-critical embedded systems
• Significant experience working within automotive environments
• Strong understanding of AI and machine learning technologies within embedded systems
• Experience defining system safety architectures and safety concepts
• Experience translating system and AI behaviour into safety requirements

Keywords

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