Staff Systems Engineer, Embedded Safety & Architecture

Job summary

Responsibilities

With offices in Toronto, San Francisco, Dallas, and Pittsburgh, Waabi is growing quickly and looking for diverse, innovative and collaborative candidates who want to impact the world in a positive way. To learn more visit: www.waabi.ai

• Partner with the systems and safety group. Take the vehicle-level safety concept, safety goals, and functional safety requirements as your inputs, and feed embedded expertise…
• Own the embedded technical safety concept. Derive technical safety requirements from the functional safety concept allocated to the embedded system, and allocate each to the…
• Architect across hardware and software. Define the embedded system architecture and the hardware/software partition, including the hardware-software interface (HSI), so both…
• Manage requirements and traceability. Maintain bidirectional traceability from the safety goals handed down to you all the way to hardware and software requirements, and keep the…
• Steward automotive standards for the embedded org. Stay current on the standards that apply to our work — functional safety, SOTIF, cybersecurity, autonomous-product safety…

What they're looking for

• BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related field — or equivalent hands-on experience.
• 8+ years in embedded systems, with real depth spanning both hardware and software.
• Strong ISO 26262 experience concentrated on the system-design phase (Part 4) and its handoffs to hardware (Part 5) and software (Part 6): deriving technical safety requirements…
• Working familiarity with the broader automotive standards landscape — and the judgment to operationalize it — including SOTIF (ISO 21448), automotive cybersecurity (ISO/SAE…
• Fluency with requirements management and traceability — you've lived in a tool like Polarion and know why traceability matters when the safety case is questioned.

Tech stack

• C++
• Rust