Wayve

Principal Safety Case Architect

Wayve · Sunnyvale

Posted 17 days ago · $290,000 to 426,300

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This role has been open
17 days
Wayve's roles stay open a median of 40 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
Yes
40% of Wayve's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Wayve
high
77 stale, 1 reposted of 169 open
Hiring momentum
201 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-09-17

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About this role

The Principal Safety Case Architect at Wayve will be responsible for owning the architecture, strategy, and integrity of safety cases for the company's robotaxi and OEM ADAS products. This role involves defining safety claims, developing safety arguments, and ensuring alignment between product requirements and safety evidence while collaborating closely with various engineering and product teams. The position also includes providing independent safety oversight and coaching teams on safety principles.

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4/5
career value
5/5
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5/5
pay transparency
5/5

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What you need

  • Deep experience developing or owning safety cases for complex safety-critical systems, ideally in autonomous vehicles, ADAS, robotics, aerospace, defense, or another software-intensive domain.
  • Strong systems engineering background spanning requirements, architecture, verification, validation, and safety assurance.
  • Proven ability to translate complex technical evidence into structured safety claims and arguments.
  • Strong understanding of autonomous driving and AI/ML safety, including model performance, data, uncertainty, and limitations of conventional verification approaches.
  • Experience partnering with AI/ML, engineering, systems, and product teams on safety-critical products.
  • Strong knowledge of relevant standards, including ISO 26262, ISO 21448, ISO/PAS 8800, and ISO 3450x.

Nice to have

  • Safety case experience with L2+/L3 ADAS or L4 ADS products.
  • Experience with GSN or equivalent structured assurance methods.
  • Safety evidence experience for end-to-end or foundation-model-based autonomous driving.
  • Experience working with OEMs, regulators, assessors, or independent safety reviewers.
  • Familiarity with operational and post-deployment safety monitoring.

What you get

  • Hybrid working policy that combines time in the office and remote work.
  • Core working hours to allow flexible scheduling.
  • Competitive equity package.

Worth weighing

  • No specific salary figure mentioned, only a range.
  • Role operates independently from Engineering and Product, which may impact collaboration dynamics.
  • The position requires navigating uncertainty in safety arguments, which could be challenging.
  • The role demands a high level of intellectual rigor and the ability to challenge established industry practices.

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Listed by Wayve on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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