# Senior Sensor Hardware Safety Engineer

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Santa Clara, CA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

NVIDIA's Hardware Safety Engineering team is seeking a highly motivated Sr Sensor Hardware Safety Engineer to define and drive hardware safety for sensor systems. You will own the end-to-end hardware safety strategy for cameras, LiDAR, radar, inertial measurement units (IMUs), and other sensors across NVIDIA's physical AI platforms.

Responsibilities:

- 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.

Requirements:

- 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.

Benefits:

- Equity

- Benefits package

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- Computer Science
- Automotive Sensors
- Hardware Systems
- Functional Safety
- FMEA
- FMEDA
- DFA
- FTA

### Nice to have
- Experience developing automotive sensor systems
- Understanding of functional-safety development processes required for ISO 26262
- Experience defining or verifying safety mechanisms
- PCB or ECU design and embedded systems based on NVIDIA SoCs
- System modeling using SysML

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