Staff AV Safety Engineer, Human Factors

What you'll do

• Lead cross-functional hazard analyses to identify risks related to driver-automation interaction, human error, and mode confusion.
• Derive traceable safety requirements, mitigations, and operational controls from human factors hazard assessments.
• Provide technical direction for human-machine interface features including visual alerts, driver monitoring systems, and displays.
• Evaluate automated-system interactions to ensure they support appropriate attention, decision-making, and recovery during failures.
• Define research strategies and convert study results into actionable safety requirements and best practices.
• Analyze incident data, video, and telemetry to identify human-error causal factors and improve system design.
• Provide human factors input for operator training, fatigue management, and performance-monitoring programs.
• Own and contribute to human factors safety-case claims and evidence for launch-readiness activities.

What we're looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Factors, Systems Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of experience applying human factors engineering principles to safety-critical transportation systems.
• Demonstrated experience analyzing human interactions with complex automation systems.
• Demonstrated expertise in leading or contributing to structured hazard analyses such as STPA, FTA, and FMECA.
• Experience translating human factors findings into safety requirements, design recommendations, operational controls, and training guidance.
• Experience planning, reviewing, executing, or interpreting human factors research or human-in-the-loop studies.
• Ability to analyze operational events, incidents, or operator performance to identify human-error causal factors using data and telemetry.
• Strong technical writing, presentation, and cross-functional communication skills to frame ambiguous problems and defend decision-making.
• Advanced degree in Human Factors, Systems Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical degree (preferred).
• Experience in the automated vehicle industry (preferred).
• Experience working with research institutions, external vendors, and multidisciplinary academic or engineering teams (preferred).
• Experience with functional safety, SOTIF, safety management systems, safety cases, and other safety standards (preferred).
• Familiarity with requirement tools such as JAMA or DOORS (preferred).