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Role Summary

As a SOTIF Engineer for the Self-Driving team at Rivian, you will be both lead and be an active participant in developing the functional safety concept, including all aspects of feature decomposition and analysis throughout the vehicle program lifecycle. In order to do this, you will work closely with the Vehicle System Engineering functional safety engineering team to ensure vehicle system level compliance and provide technical guidance in the form of consulting and independent peer reviews of the system with other cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

Contribute to ADAS and Self-Driving feature requirements and provide functional safety guidance on feature definition
Derive safety hazards that would contribute to ADAS SOTIF events
Develop safety goals/requirements associated with identified ADAS-SOTIF related events
Help drive system architecture and controls actions to mitigate SOTIF risk
Derive validation and verification test scenarios to demonstrate robustness of ADAS system to SOTIF
Data and machine learning algorithm analysis as per SOTIF process

Qualifications

Degree education in Electrical/Electronic or Mechanical (or similar) Engineering
Over 5 years of experience within the automotive industry, ideally OEM or Tier 1 working within systems engineering in relation to ADAS features with working knowledge of ISO 26262
Background and experience in safety related engineering (active safety, functional safety)
Experience in defining the SOTIF process for ADAS features
Understanding of emerging standards such as UL 4600
Strong system engineering background
Good interpersonal and communication skills with a high level of integrity
Experience working within a cross-functional team

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Equal Opportunity

Rivian is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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