Safety System Engineer

Before the detail, here's the challenge you'd help us solve.

We build the embodied intelligence that moves real vehicles safely, and the ecosystem a billion machines will run on in the future. Very few people in AI can say this. Every role here, whatever the team, plugs into that.

Here’s what this particular role covers.

Safety System Engineer

🛠️ About our Engineering Teams

At Wayve, we are developing AV2.0: an end-to-end AI driving system designed to learn and adapt across a wide range of driving environments, with the ambition to scale autonomy globally. Our Safety team tackles one of the most important and complex challenges in that mission - assuring the safety of our Automated Driving System (ADS) as it evolves across vehicle platforms, applications and operating environments. You will help design and orchestrate the safety assurance framework that makes this possible.

🧠 Your day-to-day

You will lead functional safety activities for Wayve's ADS and its integration into current and future vehicle platforms, as well as third-party safety-critical systems. Working closely with internal engineering teams, external partners and other safety experts, you will build a deep understanding of the system, assess risk, shape the safety concept and architecture, define verification and validation, and develop the evidence needed to support a robust safety case.

🧩 What you’ll be working on

• Build and maintain Item Definition work products for each vehicle platform and safety-critical integration.
• Conduct HARAs, FMEAs and FTAs to identify risk and d