Sr. Staff Functional Safety Engineers
Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies · Posted Nov 4, 2026
- Palo Alto, California, United States
- Full-time · Senior
- 2–5 years
Lead functional safety engineering for automotive platforms, deriving hazard assessments, safety requirements, and overseeing integration validation and testing.
Compensation
In addition to a competitive base salary, full-time positions may be eligible to participate in our annual company performance bonus program. This role is also eligible for equity in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
Responsibilities
- Work with systems engineering to understand expected features and functions specific to a vehicle program
- Derive detailed Hazard and Risk Assessment (HARA) and Functional Safety Requirements (FSR’s) for a vehicle platform
- Engage with core engineering functional safety engineers in driving technical content for the Technical Safety Requirements (TSR’s), hardware requirements, and software requirements, and derive ASIL metrics
- Understand high level safety implementation at a vehicle level, and transition to low level architecture and how safety requirements are applied to low level hardware and software
- Oversee integration validation and testing activities between component hardware and software
Requirements
- Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Electrical/Electronic Engineering or a closely related field
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Electrical/Electronic Engineering or a closely related field