Gatikaiinc
Senior Systems & Safety Engineer – Hardware
Santa Clara, CA. Posted 2 months ago
The role
The Senior Systems & Safety Engineer – Hardware will lead safety architecture, reliability engineering, and functional safety compliance for AV compute, sensor suites, power distribution, and networking backbones. This role ensures hardware withstands thermal, vibration, and component failure conditions.
What you will do
- Conduct hardware functional safety activities including FMEDA, PMHF, and Single Point Fault Metrics.
- Evaluate, select, and qualify automotive-grade compute, sensor, and power hardware from Tier-1 suppliers.
- Define hardware requirements for compliance and system safety.
- Design test methodologies for hardware fault injection to validate hardware diagnostic coverage.
- Generate hardware safety manuals, FMEDA reports, and hardware verification documentation.
Required qualifications
- B.S. or M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechatronics, or Automotive Engineering.
- 6+ years in hardware safety engineering, electrical architecture, or systems engineering in automotive (Tier-1/OEM) or aerospace industries.
- Deep working knowledge of ISO 26262 (Hardware level development), ISO 16750, SAE J1455, and FMVSS.
- Proven experience conducting FMEDA, FTA, and worst-case circuit analysis for safety-critical hardware.
- Expert knowledge of Automotive Ethernet, CAN-FD, LIN, PCIe, and high-speed deserializer (GMSL/FPD-Link) topologies.
- Experience with high-power DC-DC converters, smart power distribution modules (ePDMs), and battery management systems (BMS).
Nice to have
- Direct experience designing or safety-certifying high-compute AV platforms.
- Experience with heavy/medium-duty commercial vehicle platform integration.
- Thermal and structural safety analysis experience under extreme environmental conditions.
About the company
Gatik is a leader in autonomous middle-mile logistics providing autonomous transportation-as-a-service solutions. The company focuses on short-haul, B2B logistics for Fortune 500 retailers using proprietary Level 4 autonomous technology.