Principal Engineer, Team Lead – Safety & Targets

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🎰 Nevada, Massachusetts, +1 more states – Remote

🎰 Nevada – Remote 🍂 Massachusetts – Remote 🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote

💵 $200k - $275k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Motional

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2020

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

Consulting • Logistics • Manufacturing

Motional is a leading company in the development of autonomous vehicles, focusing on making driverless transportation a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. A joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group and Aptiv, Motional has been at the forefront of driverless technology for decades, creating SAE Level 4 autonomous vehicles for ride-hail and delivery services. The company emphasizes safety and innovation, leveraging advanced machine learning and automotive technology to build fully driverless vehicles that integrate smoothly into mobility networks, providing an enjoyable experience for daily transportation and deliveries.

📋 Description

• Lead the Safety & Targets team within the Systems Readiness and Performance organization • Drive development and maturation of collision detection and response and imminent collision handling across autonomy, remote vehicle assistance, and operational functions • Define safety requirements, thresholds, response behaviors, and validate them • Own benchmark programs across safety, comfort, and assertiveness • Establish human-driving benchmarks and convert them into measurable acceptance criteria • Advance evasive maneuver and preventability modeling • Define validation coverage, identify gaps, and work cross-functionally to close them • Own hazard analysis, STPA, HAZOP, FMEA, requirements, coverage, and other safety-case evidence • Sustain and expand safety-case claims through external assessment and regulatory review • Productionize crash database analysis, collision-event ingestion and labeling, and automated monitoring reports • Mentor and grow a high-performing engineering team • Partner with Autonomy, Infrastructure, Operations, Legal, and Systems teams to improve safety, comfort, assertiveness, and launch readiness • Drive system design, verification, validation, and performance-target definition for fully driverless IONIQ 5 robotaxis

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of experience in Systems Engineering, Functional Safety, Autonomous Systems, or Robotics, with deep expertise in one and working knowledge of the others; or Master’s degree/PhD and 5+ years of experience • 3+ years of experience leading safety-critical development, validation, or safety assurance programs for autonomous driving or other emerging safety-critical technologies • Proven track record of growing small, high-performing teams • Experience defining quantitative performance targets and acceptance criteria spanning safety, comfort, and assertiveness • Expertise in STPA, HAZOP, FMEA, hazard analysis, and risk assessment • Expertise leveraging large-scale simulation, track, and road data • Familiarity with SOTIF, ISO 26262, UL4600, AVSC behavior competencies, and other industry standards • Proven ability to build consensus across multidisciplinary teams • Experience with collision and crash data analysis, public crash databases, and regulatory incident reporting is desirable • Strong foundation in statistical methodology, data science, and scientific rigor; proficiency in Python, SQL, and data visualization is desirable • Experience with industry benchmarks and human naturalistic driving behavior is desirable • Familiarity with ride comfort and motion-sickness modeling, or assertiveness/conservatism driving-policy metrics is desirable • Experience presenting safety argumentation to external assessors, regulators, or certification bodies is desirable • Experience publishing safety research or white papers, or participating in industry consortia is desirable • Experience collaborating within agile environments and global, distributed teams is desirable • Excellent communication skills and proactive mindset are desirable • Eligibility for employment in the United States is verified through E-Verify

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • 401(k) with a company match • Health savings accounts • Life insurance • Pet insurance • Bonus or company equity may be included • Hybrid schedule with in-office time at one of the Boston, Pittsburgh, or Las Vegas locations, or fully remote • Inclusive, diverse, progressive global culture