Sr. Staff or Principal, System Safety Assurance Engineer

Team Charter:
The NIO Vehicle Safety and Compliance Team is responsible for defining safety standards and requirements and ensuring safety assurance and compliance across NIO’s mass-produced fleet of Luxury, Intelligent, Autonomous Vehicles.  Collaborating closely with all internal and external teams, organizations and agencies around the globe, the NIO Vehicle Safety and Compliance Team‘s mission is to ensure safety assurance and compliance while also innovating next-generation vehicles and make it happen on mass-produced vehicles.  About the Role:
NIO is seeking a Sr. Staff or Principal System Safety Assurance Engineer for its North American R&D Center. Reporting to the Chief Safety and Compliance Engineer, you will lead to develop and establish, NIO’s System Safety Assurance and Assessment Program to ensure Safety Compliance across NIO’s fleet of vehicles worldwide. In this role, you will work closely with cross-functional teams across NIO. You will advise all internal stakeholders and leadership to help ensure compliance with all applicable automotive industry safety standards, regulations, guidelines, best practices, and due-care requirements.  This position can be based in San Jose, CA, Seattle, WA or Boise, ID.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and deliver vehicle, system, and sub-system level safety goals
• Lead creation and review of safety requirements
• Compile and deliver list of required evidence to develop NIO’s safety case in your area of expertise and responsibility
• Conduct internal compliance reviews and efforts to validate NIO’s safety case by assessing evidence
• Deliver successful completion of NIO’s safety case
• Ensure safety assurance by continuously assessing on-going compliance
• Provide safety assurance and compliance expertise and knowledge
• Conduct safety-critical analyses and reviews of various safety standards, and Hazard and Risk Analysis (HARA) work products, e.g., ISO-26262, ISO-21448, UL 4600, FMEA, STPA, FTA, etc.
• When necessary, lead efforts to start or perform appropriate HARA activities by working cross-functionally across NIO
• Perform appropriate safety-critical audits, reviews, and compliance assessment
• Document findings, recommend improvements, discuss with related teams to ensure improvement and compliance
• Liaise with and provide status updates to stakeholders and leadership
• Ensure consistency and compliance with emerging regulatory requirements, guidelines, and best practices

Requirements:

• Degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, Systems, Structural, and others), or related technical field
• 5-10 years of system safety engineering experience in automotive (or in a safety-critical industry, e.g., transportation, aerospace, nuclear, chemical, etc.) preferably at OEM, Tier 1 supplier, or product certification organization
• Automotive industry (or safety-critical industry) safety assurance, safety compliance knowledge and experience
• Demonstrated evidence of expertise and experience of analysis, assessment, and documentation of product safety compliance to Functional Safety, SOTIF, and other automotive safety standards
• In-depth knowledge and expert level expertise and experience on various hazard analysis methods and HARA work products
• Experience extracting safety requirements from applicable safety standards and regulation
• Hands on experiences applying relevant safety standards in product development and engineering
• Systems engineering fundamentals, especially how it relates to hardware, software, system and sub-system level design and engineering
• Strong written and oral communication skills, especially the ability to communicate complex engineering issues to a diverse global team
• Product safety investigation and analysis related experience in Vehicle safety, ADAS, AV and ADS technologies is desired
• Relevant certification (e.g., Functional Safety or others), training and licenses are desired
• Mandarin language skills (speaking and writing) are a plus

About NIO    NIO Inc. is a pioneer in China’s premium smart electric vehicle market. Founded in November 2014, NIO’s mission is to shape a joyful lifestyle. NIO aims to build a community starting with smart electric vehicles to share joy and grow together with users. NIO designs, jointly manufactures, and sells smart premium electric vehicles, driving innovations in next-generation technologies in connectivity, autonomous driving, and artificial intelligence. Redefining the user experience, NIO provides users with comprehensive and convenient power solutions, innovative Battery as a Service (BaaS) program, and other user-centric services. NIO began deliveries of the ES8, a 7-seater flagship premium electric SUV, in China in June 2018, and its variant, the 6-seater ES8, in March 2019. NIO officially launched the ES6, a 5-seater high-performance premium electric SUV, in December 2018 and began deliveries of the ES6 in June 2019. NIO officially launched the EC6, a 5-seater premium electric coupe SUV, in December 2019 and began deliveries of the EC6 in September 2020.
Equal Employment Opportunity   NIO is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity. We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, color, age, sex, ancestry, marital status, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, present or past history of mental disability, genetic information or any other classification protected by state or federal law. NIO US is an E-Verify employer.