Safety Behaviors Engineer

The role

This person will create safe behavior requirements and lead risk evaluations for autonomous vehicle technology. They will work cross-functionally to ensure requirements traceability, risk management, and alignment of safety objectives.

What you will do

• Create requirements using safety frameworks and following safety standards.
• Lead risk evaluations to identify functional insufficiencies and triggering conditions.
• Define acceptance criteria in the requirements.
• Support the planning and execution of safety-critical initiatives across the autonomous vehicle lifecycle.
• Contribute to the alignment between product roadmaps, safety goals, and deployment milestones.
• Ensure traceability between hazards, safety requirements, system requirements, verification activities and validation evidence.
• Work in cross-functional safety activities including hazard analysis, safety assessments, and safety case development.
• Support integrated verification and validation activities across simulation, test environments, closed-course testing, and field operations.
• Support other subject matter experts to handle safety risks, technical dependencies, and change impacts.

Required qualifications

• Experience in autonomous systems, ADAS, robotics, aerospace, industrial automation, or other safety-critical platforms.
• Demonstrated experience applying ISO 21448 (SOTIF) across the safety lifecycle, including hazard analysis and risk assessment (HARA), safety goals, functional and technical safety concepts, and ASIL d
• Familiarity with safety lifecycle artifacts including Item Definitions, HARA, HIRE, FMEA/FMEDA, Safety Requirements, Safety Plans, Safety Cases, and Verification & Validation strategies.
• Demonstrated ability to align engineering execution with safety assurance objectives while maintaining program delivery commitments.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering or a related technical field, plus demonstrated competencies and technical proficiencies typically acquired through 3+ years of

Nice to have

• Working knowledge of ISO 26262 and other related standards such as IEC 61508, UL 4600, or ISO/PAS 8800

About the company

Torc is a leader in autonomous driving since 2007 and is now a part of the Daimler family. The company focuses on developing software for automated trucks to transform how the world moves freight.