or apply directly on Bot Auto's site. We never take the application ourselves.
Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 13 days Bot Auto's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 6% of Bot Auto's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Bot Auto
- high 14 stale, 2 reposted of 17 open
- Hiring momentum
- 25 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Bot Auto's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Bot Auto.
About this role
As a Senior Functional Safety Engineer at Bot Auto, you will be responsible for defining, analyzing, and validating the safety of the autonomous trucking platform. Your role involves collaborating with various teams to ensure that safety requirements are implemented and verified, leading safety analysis, and developing safety artifacts. You will also evaluate safety impacts of new features and drive safety reviews for operational readiness.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Bot Auto as an employer.
What you need
- Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, Automotive Engineering, or a related technical field
- 7+ years of experience in systems safety, functional safety, autonomous vehicles, robotics, aerospace, automotive, heavy vehicles, safety-critical software, or complex cyber-physical systems
- Strong experience performing safety analyses such as HARA, FMEA, FTA, STPA, failure mode analysis, requirements decomposition, and risk assessment
- Experience developing or contributing to safety cases for safety-critical systems
- Strong understanding of autonomous vehicle system architecture, including perception, prediction, planning, control, localization, mapping, vehicle actuation, compute, sensing, and fleet operations
- Understanding of highly redundant, fault tolerant architectures and fail operational ADS and vehicle health management
Nice to have
- Experience with autonomous trucks, commercial vehicles, robotics, AV operations, fleet operations, or on-road testing
- Experience with ISO26262 or similar safety audit and assessment process
- Experience supporting driverless launch readiness, route readiness, ODD expansion, or commercial autonomous vehicle deployment
- Experience analyzing vehicle logs, simulation results, scenario databases, disengagements, incidents, or safety-driver interventions
- Familiarity with trucking operations, FMCSA/DOT regulations, commercial vehicle safety, or heavy-duty vehicle systems
Worth weighing
- Role involves significant responsibility in safety analysis and validation, which may lead to high pressure and expectations in a fast-paced environment.
- No salary or specific benefits listed in the posting, which may be a consideration for candidates evaluating the opportunity.
Summarised from Bot Auto's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Bot Auto on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.