Staff Safety Engineer (Autonomous Vehicles)

Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, United States; Remote U.S. only.

Salary: $144,000–$191,250 USD base salary per year.

Company

hirify.global is a driverless technology company developing autonomous vehicles and robotaxi systems, with operations in the U.S. and Asia.

What you will do

• Define and maintain AV safety performance indicators, including collisions, near-misses, safety-critical interventions, traffic compliance, and surrogate safety metrics.
• Establish exposure denominators, data-quality requirements, automated calculation pipelines, change-management procedures, and governance for safety metrics.
• Develop benchmarking frameworks comparing AV performance with human-driving baselines, counterfactual models, public datasets, regulatory disclosures, and other operators.
• Apply statistical inference, uncertainty quantification, Bayesian methods, risk modeling, and rare-event analysis to evaluate AV behavior and scenario-level performance.
• Build collision-severity and injury-risk models and connect findings to engineering investigations, safety mitigations, and release-readiness decisions.
• Provide technical leadership across Safety Case, Systems Engineering, Simulation, Data Science, Policy, and related teams while communicating evidence to executives, partners, and regulators.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, or a related technical field.
• 8+ years of experience in safety engineering, autonomous-driving evaluation, statistical modeling, simulation-based validation, or AV risk assessment.
• Proven experience defining quantitative safety metrics, safety performance indicators, surrogate safety measures, and human benchmark models.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL, with experience analyzing large-scale operational or safety-related datasets.
• Strong expertise in statistical inference, rare-event analysis, counterfactual modeling, risk quantification, and release-readiness evaluation.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional technical initiatives and communicate complex findings clearly.

Nice to have

• Master’s or Ph.D. in a relevant technical or quantitative discipline.
• Experience with Level 4 autonomous driving, robotaxi operations, or other safety-critical systems.
• Experience benchmarking AV safety using public reports, regulatory disclosures, industry datasets, or published research.
• Familiarity with scenario taxonomies, safety case frameworks, and standards including UL 4600, ISO 21448 (SOTIF), ISO 8800, SAE J3237, and ISO 26262.
• Experience with collision-severity modeling, injury-risk prediction, or human benchmark datasets.

Culture & Benefits

• Benefits may include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with company match, health savings accounts, life insurance, and pet insurance.
• Additional compensation may include bonus or company equity.
• Inclusive, diverse, and people-first work environment focused on safer transportation and commercialization of autonomous technology.
• Employment eligibility is verified through E-Verify in accordance with federal law.