The Role
Develops safety behavior requirements for autonomous vehicle systems, leads risk evaluations and functional insufficiency analyses, defines acceptance criteria, and supports safety-critical initiatives throughout the autonomous vehicle lifecycle. The role ensures traceability across hazards, requirements, verification, and validation evidence; contributes to safety cases and assessments; and coordinates cross-functional safety activities involving software, hardware, perception, localization, controls, systems engineering, and field operations.
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About the Company
At Torc, we have always believed that autonomous vehicle technology will transform how we travel, move freight, and do business.
A leader in autonomous driving since 2007, Torc has spent over a decade commercializing our solutions with experienced partners. Now a part of the Daimler family, we are focused solely on developing software for automated trucks to transform how the world moves freight.
Join us and catapult your career with the company that helped pioneer autonomous technology and the first AV software company with the vision to partner directly with a truck manufacturer.
Meet the Team
This role supports the creation of safe behavior requirements and leads risk evaluations, identifies functional insufficiencies and triggering conditions (FI-TC; e.g., severe weather, glare, or rare edge cases), and defines acceptance criteria (such as S>0, C>0 analyses). Furthermore, the role supports the execution framework that enables the safe and scalable deployment of autonomous functions across various platforms and operational domains.
As autonomy systems increase complexity, this position supports safety requirements, as well as systems engineering, V&V, and operational activities. The candidate will work cross-functionally with systems engineering, behavioral safety, and autonomy. The role ensures requirements traceability, verification and validation readiness, risk management, and alignment of safety objectives with program milestones.
What You’ll Do:
- Create requirements using safety frameworks and following safety standards (i.e. ISO 21448, ISO 26262, ISO/PAS 8800, etc.).
- Lead risk evaluations to identify functional insufficiencies and triggering conditions FI-TC (e.g., severe weather, glare, or rare edge cases).
- Define acceptance criteria in the requirements (such as S>0, C>0 analyses).
- Support the planning and execution of safety-critical initiatives across the autonomous vehicle lifecycle.
- Contribute to the alignment between product roadmaps, safety goals, and deployment milestones.
- Ensure traceability between hazards, safety requirements, system requirements, verification activities and validation evidence.
- Work in cross-functional safety activities including hazard analysis, safety assessments, and safety case development.
- Support integrated verification and validation activities across simulation, test environments, closed-course testing, and field operations for evidence-based deployment decisions.
- Support other subject matter experts (SMEs) to handle safety risks, technical dependencies, and change impacts across systems, software, hardware, perception, localization, controls, and operational teams.
What You Need To Succeed
- Experience in autonomous systems, ADAS, robotics, aerospace, industrial automation, or other safety-critical platforms.
- Demonstrated experience applying ISO 21448 (SOTIF) across the safety lifecycle, including hazard analysis and risk assessment (HARA), safety goals, functional and technical safety concepts, and ASIL decomposition.
- Working knowledge of ISO 26262 and other related standards such as IEC 61508, UL 4600, or ISO/PAS 8800 is a plus.
- Familiarity with safety lifecycle artifacts including Item Definitions, HARA, HIRE, FMEA/FMEDA, Safety Requirements, Safety Plans, Safety Cases, and Verification & Validation strategies.
- Demonstrated ability to align engineering execution with safety assurance objectives while maintaining program delivery commitments.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering or a related technical field, plus demonstrated competencies and technical proficiencies typically acquired through 3+ years of experience OR; Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering or a related technical field plus demonstrated competencies and technical proficiencies typically acquired through 0+ years of experience.
Hiring Range for Job Opening
US Pay Range
$177,300—$212,800 USD
Skills Required
- Experience in autonomous systems, ADAS, robotics, aerospace, industrial automation, or other safety-critical platforms
- Demonstrated experience applying ISO 21448 SOTIF across the safety lifecycle, including hazard analysis and risk assessment, safety goals, functional and technical safety concepts, and ASIL decomposition
- Working knowledge of ISO 26262
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, plus competencies typically acquired through 3+ years of experience
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, plus demonstrated competencies and technical proficiencies
- Familiarity with IEC 61508, UL 4600, or ISO/PAS 8800
- Familiarity with safety lifecycle artifacts including Item Definitions, HARA, HIRE, FMEA/FMEDA, safety requirements, safety plans, safety cases, and verification and validation strategies
- Ability to align engineering execution with safety assurance objectives while maintaining program delivery commitments
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The Company
What We Do
Torc Robotics is an independent subsidiary of Daimler Truck AG, a global leader and pioneer in trucking. Founded in 2005 at the birth of the self-driving vehicle revolution, we have 17 years of experience in pioneering safety-critical, self-driving applications. Torc offers a complete self-driving vehicle software and integration solution and is currently focusing on commercializing self-driving trucks.
Why Work With Us
Every Torc’r is unique. The traits that define and motivate us to save lives are what unite us. At Torc, we recognize that technical prowess is only part of the equation. Our team includes people with a consistent drive to accomplish great things. We look for those who don’t let ego get in the way of teamwork.
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