Senior Operational Safety Engineer
Job Description
We're Cruise, a self-driving service designed for the cities we love.
We're building the world's most advanced, self-driving vehicles to safely connect people to the places, things, and experiences they care about. We believe self-driving vehicles will help save lives, reshape cities, give back time in transit, and restore freedom of movement for many.
Cruisers have the opportunity to grow and develop while learning from leaders at the forefront of their fields. With a culture of internal mobility, there's an opportunity to thrive in a variety of disciplines. This is a place for dreamers and doers to succeed.
If you are looking to play a part in making a positive impact in the world by advancing the revolutionary work of self-driving cars, join us.
What you'll be doing:
The Operational Safety team assures safety in every operational stage including our closed course testing, validation testing on-road and our commercial driverless services. Our work ranges from collaborating with operations on measuring effectiveness of operator training to working with engineers on proactively identifying human factors risks to account for in feature designs. The Operational Safety Engineer will provide tactical safety leadership for our growing Commercial Operations team.
Perform risk assessment for safety critical operations using quantitative and qualitative methods.
Rapidly triage safety risk assessment and safety concern requests, events, and escalated issues to determine priority.
Contribute to operational risk assessment methodology development
Own end to end hazard identification and risk assessment process improvements
Articulate safety reports, summaries, and recommendations to risk owners and other executives
Support the Commercial Operations Risk Working Group activities and requests for safety process and risk improvements.
Assist with the development and execution of an operational safety audit program strategy and plan to ensure effective operational safety controls implementation across all geographies, programs, and modes of operation.
Perform frequent site audits and review field audit data to ensure operational safety controls are implemented and effective at the site. Implement corrective action plans to eliminate exposure to these risks at other sites.
Review concept of operations, operational procedures, training materials and operational changes for hazards and develop operational safety requirements to embed in the process to control risks.
Identify and monitor key performance metrics and indicators to ensure both process and continuous improvement. Reports on safety issues, trends, & recommendations to the Commercial Operations risk working group and our executives for the domains you support including updates to risk levels for future expansions.
Partner with the Safety & Systems team to develop methods to identify emerging risk trends and incorporate findings from commercial operations to the requirements and design process.
Serve as the operational safety representative in urgent fleet safety concerns or severe incident crisis management response for off-hours emergencies.
What you must have:
Familiarity with Risk Assessment methodologies
Demonstrate the ability to build trust and confidence with the operations team and influence continuous improvement for systems safety.
Enjoy working in a collegial yet highly fast-paced and effective culture.
Comfort with ambiguity; bias to action.
Excellent judgment and ability to remain unbiased and independent throughout all safety activities
Proven track record of root cause analysis in complex human factors and SW/HW systems
Ability to learn quickly, starting with little information and quickly becoming an expert in your domain
Proven experience at communicating data driven decisions to leadership
Strong project management skills to coordinate multiple risk assessment work streams simultaneously
Bonus points!
Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Safety, Human Factors or a related technical degree
Proficiency in extracting insights from and applying expert-provided data in the form of quantitative risk assessments, reliability analysis, and/or statistical data analysis
Expertise in Human & Organizational Performance and/or Systems Safety
Expertise in safety analysis for autonomous vehicles or similar industry
Experience within an operating Safety Management System
Understanding of System Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA) and its application
Familiarity with JIRA and JAMA
The salary range for this position is $115,600 - 170,000. Compensation will vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. You may also be offered a bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. These ranges are subject to change.
Why Cruise?
- Our benefits are here to support the whole you:
- Medical / dental / vision, AD+D and life insurance
- Subsidized mental health benefits
- One Medical membership
- Flexible Spending Account
- Monthly wellness stipend
- 401(k) match
- Paid time off: vacation, sick, public health emergency, jury duty, bereavement and company holidays.
- Paid parental, family care and medical leave
- Family care benefits: fertility benefits, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (subsidized by Cruise).
- Non-remote employees: Pre-tax Commuter Benefit Plan, healthy meals and snacks
- CruiseFlex - a working policy for US-Based Cruisers that lets you and your manager find what working style is best for you, whether it's primarily in-person, primarily at home or a combination of home and in-office time.
- We're Integrated
- Through our partnerships with General Motors and Honda, we are the only self-driving company with fully integrated manufacturing at scale.
- We're Funded
- GM, Honda, Microsoft, T. Rowe Price & Walmart have invested billions in Cruise. Their backing for our technology demonstrates their confidence in our progress, team, and vision and makes us one of the leading autonomous vehicle organizations in the industry. Our deep resources greatly accelerate our operating speed.
- We're Independent
- We have our own governance, board of directors, equity, and investors. Our independence allows us to not just work on the edge of technology, but also define it.
- We're Vested
- You won't just own your work here, you'll have the potential to own equity in Cruise, too. We are competing in a market that is projected to grow exponentially, which gives our company valuation room to grow.
- Recurring Liquidity Opportunity (RLO) - a unique equity program where employees, both current and former, have the option to sell any amount of their vested equity on a recurring basis, currently quarterly.
- We're Safety Conscious
- We integrate #staysafe, our top priority at Cruise, into our everyday work. Through our Safety Management System, every Cruiser is asked to do their part by reporting any potential issues or hazards they observe and making continuous improvements. You'll be able to contribute to safety at Cruise, no matter your job function or title.
Cruise LLC is an equal opportunity employer. We strive to create a supportive and inclusive workplace where contributions are valued and celebrated, and our employees thrive by being themselves and are inspired to do the best work of their lives.
We seek applicants of all backgrounds and identities, across race, color, ethnicity, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or parental status, or disability. Applicants will not be discriminated against based on these or other protected categories or social identities. Cruise will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, in accordance with applicable laws.
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Vaccine Mandate.
At Cruise, we're tasked with leading in the communities we serve — and doing our part to help keep our communities and our teams safe. Our #StaySafe culture transcends and informs all we do, and because of this, as of October 31, 2021 Cruise will be mandating COVID-19 vaccinations for all US-based Cruisers who need or want to access any of our US Cruise facilities and engage in any business travel — including attending any in-person Company-sponsored event.
If you are unable to get a vaccine due to a medical condition, disability, or a strongly-held religious belief, Cruise will consider requests for an accommodation.
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