At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive.
We care deeply about delivering the best transportation experience; this means the best experience for the passenger and the best experience for the driver. We believe this quality of service can only be achieved with a deep understanding of our world, our cities, our streets… how they evolve, how they breathe. We embrace the powerful positive impact autonomous transportation will bring to our everyday lives and with our ambition, we will become a leader in the development and operation of such vehicles. Thanks to our network, with hundreds of millions of rides every year, we have the means to make autonomy a safe reality.
As a member of the Office of Safety and Compliance, you’ll drive the safety of our autonomous vehicle efforts and thereby revolutionize transportation. You will empower our team to deliver complex projects to ensure safety and compliance, while coordinating interactions with other teams and external organizations.
The position reports to: Director - Office of Safety and Compliance (OSaC), in the Legal Department
Responsibilities:
- Develop and assess our partner’s safety cases for vehicle platforms including driving technical safety requirements and processes based on AV industry standards and technical best practices, including UL 4600, ISO 26262 - Functional Safety, and ISO 21448 - SOTIF
- Support onsite and offsite evaluation of outside partner companies’ AV safety programs. Conduct technical engineering audits, testing, assessments, and evaluations, and document thoroughly with engineering reports
- Conduct onsite public-road and closed-course engineering testing and analysis to quantify safety readiness, safety incident investigation, risk, compliance and safety decision making
- Utilize Quantified Risk Management (QRM) tools and methods (FMEDA, DFMEA, FTA and DFA) to conduct quantified technical risk assessments for potential safety issues with partner companies’ vehicles, operation, and cybersecurity systems
- Develop and monitor vehicle performance and risk metrics, along with other technical considerations, to support grounding, pausing, and return to operation of partner vehicles on the Lyft platform
- Be an active participant in autonomous vehicle safety process development, working closely with both Business and Legal teams in supporting functionality definition from a safety perspective
- Support our partners’ complex safety incident investigations, drive resolution, and help to create and maintain appropriately documented incident and issue reports
- Ensure Lyft’s AV platforms meet FMVSS regulations, state codes, reporting and other applicable standards, regulations, and orders
- Maintain exhaustive “source-of-truth” list of technical safety audit and assessment, testing, risk, and compliance requirements
- Conduct technical engineering reviews and audits to evaluate compliance to tech requirements for new and existing products and processes
- Create and maintain documentation of safety assessments, risk decisions, and compliance
- Work with Legal Compliance office to coordinate tech compliance with operational and reporting compliance
- Occasional domestic travel, sometimes short notice
Experience:
- 5+ years of experience in a relevant field such as Systems engineering, ADAS/ADK design and development, Sensor (RADAR/LIDAR/Camera) design and development or Functional safety engineering,
- Direct Experience in AV functional safety and SOTIF approaches & related V&V methodology
- Detailed experience with the Validation and Verification of complex autonomous systems
- Experience with emerging EU/UK homologation regulations as applied to autonomous vehicles and ADS/ADK equipment.
- Technical Skills and Knowledge
- Detailed, hands-on experience in the following areas
- Systems engineering and architecture of complex systems.
- Comprehensive knowledge and experience with designing, executing and analyzing the results from validation and verification testing. Data Analysis and reporting skills to effectively extract conclusions from data sets is a plus.
- Knowledge of and demonstrated hands on exp