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.