# Lead Customer Safety Engineer

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Lead Customer Safety Engineer at NVIDIA, you will play a key role in assisting automotive customers as they incorporate NVIDIA hardware into safety-critical products.

You will work alongside inventive engineers and technologists while acting as the main technical safety liaison between our customers and internal functional safety groups.

This hardware-centered customer-facing position is essential to meeting and surpassing NVIDIA's and customer's rigorous safety criteria, making your work both thrilling and meaningful!

**Responsibilities**

- Represent NVIDIA's functional safety strategy and architectures to the customer.

- Serve as the principal customer interface for hardware safety topics, translating customer needs into clear actions for internal teams.

- Assist customers to safely integrate and validate our products in their systems and vehicles.

- Coordinate Development Interface Agreements and clarify the division of safety responsibilities between NVIDIA and customers.

- Support customer-facing safety collaterals, including tailor functional safety platforms and safety analyses for strategic customers.

- Lead resolution of customer safety questions, gaps, and change requests, engaging the appropriate NVIDIA subject-matter experts.

- Mentor junior customer safety engineers and establish consistent practices for technical reviews, monitoring concerns, partner concern handling, and customer communication.

- Work closely with safety management, solution architects, hardware and software engineering, sales, and technical marketing teams to deliver safe products.

**Requirements**

- Bachelor's or master's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, hardware engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

- At least 12 years' experience, with more than 3 years in automotive functional safety, chip or ECU development, or customer safety engineering.

- Solid understanding of ISO 26262, including hardware safety concepts, SEooC development, assumptions of use, hardware safety integrity, and customer integration.

- Excellent analytical, written, and verbal communication skills and the ability to work as part of a team.

- Ability to lead complex technical discussions with automotive OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, assessors, and cross-functional engineering teams.

**Nice to Have**

- ADAS, autonomous vehicle, robotics or industrial safety experience.

- Direct experience assisting automotive clients (OEM or Tier 1).

- Hardware functional-safety experience involving complex SoCs, GPUs, processors, accelerators, or safety MCUs.

- Knowledge and experience with ECU/board level E/E build and validation.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

## Skills

### Required
- ISO 26262
- hardware safety
- automotive functional safety
- electrical engineering
- computer engineering

### Nice to have
- ADAS
- autonomous vehicle
- robotics
- industrial safety
- ECU/board level E/E build and validation

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