Senior Sensor Hardware Safety Engineer

What You'll Be Doing

• Own the end-to-end sensor hardware safety strategy for cameras, LiDAR, radar, IMUs and other sensors used in NVIDIA automotive systems.
• Support sensor supplier selection through technical and safety evaluations of sensor architectures, safety concepts, safety analysis, and integration assumptions.
• Define and manage sensor hardware safety requirements, including requirements for sensor power, interfaces, timing, synchronization, data integrity, fault detection, and fault response.
• Collaborate with sensor architects, board and system designers, software teams, and validation engineers to develop effective implementations of sensor safety requirements.
• Perform and review safety cases & analyses, including FMEA, FMEDA, DFA, and FTA, and use the results to guide architecture decisions and design improvements.
• Work with third-party suppliers to evaluate safety manuals, analysis reports, assumptions of use, and supporting evidence for sensor integration.
• Develop clear safety documentation, integration guidance, analysis reports, and user-facing safety information for internal teams and customers.

What We Need To See

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or a related engineering field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of relevant experience in automotive sensors, hardware systems, functional safety, or a related field.
• Understanding of automotive sensor technologies such as cameras, radar, LiDAR, or IMUs, including their hardware architectures and system interfaces.
• Knowledge of safety analysis methodologies, including FMEA, FMEDA, DFA, and FTA.
• Ability to work effectively with sensor suppliers and multidisciplinary engineering teams from concept through integration and verification.
• Proven ownership and proactivity, with a strong bias for action and results.
• Excellent analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.

Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd

• Experience developing automotive sensor systems or evaluating sensor safety concepts and architectures.
• Understanding of functional-safety development processes required for ISO 26262 or other relevant industry standards such as IEC 61508 and ISO 13849.
• Experience defining or verifying safety mechanisms, and writing requirements, for safety-critical sensor hardware and systems.
• Experience in PCB or ECU design and embedded systems based on NVIDIA SoCs.
• Background in system modeling using SysML and developing structured user documentation such as DITA.

About the Role

NVIDIA empowers automakers, developers, manufacturers, researchers, and startups to build and deploy physical AI systems. Its unified AI computing architecture enables training advanced AI models on NVIDIA accelerated computing platforms and deploying them into safety-critical systems, with software updates that add and improve capabilities throughout the product lifecycle.

Pay

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is $184,000 - $287,500 for Level 4, and $224,000 - $356,500 for Level 5.

Schedule

You will be eligible for equity and benefits.

Benefits

NVIDIA offers a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off.