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Kodiak

Functional Safety Engineer, Software

Mountain View, CAFrom $190kmidAdded 1 month ago

About this role

Kodiak Robotics seeks a Functional Safety Engineer to develop and manage safety cases for their autonomous trucking systems. You'll apply ISO 26262 and SOTIF principles to design, verify, and validate safety-critical software for self-driving vehicles.

What you'll do

  • Define technical safety requirements for autonomous vehicle operational domains
  • Lead software safety requirement specifications and architectural design
  • Develop test plans and verification reports for software units and integration
  • Perform safety analyses including dependent failure analysis per ISO 26262
  • Support hardware-software interface development and safety measures
  • Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders on compliance assessment

What they're looking for

  • ISO 26262 functional safety (Parts 4, 6, 8, 9)
  • SOTIF principles
  • Software safety-critical systems development
  • System and software verification and validation
  • Safety requirement specification
  • Autonomous vehicle development
  • Failure analysis and safety assessment
  • Test planning and procedures
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Kodiak

Kodiak builds autonomous trucking systems and software that enable self-driving vehicles for commercial transportation. The company is hiring engineers across verification & validation, vehicle integration, behavior planning, sensor hardware, and manufacturing quality to develop and deploy its autonomous driving technology.

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Likely interview questions

  • Walk us through your experience implementing ISO 26262 Part 6 for software in autonomous or safety-critical systems. What were the key challenges?
  • Describe your approach to developing software safety requirements and how you ensure they map correctly to system-level hazards in an autonomous vehicle context.