$224,000 - $356,500 USD yearly
NVIDIA Halos is a comprehensive safety system unifying autonomous machines architecture, AI models, chips, software, tools, and services.
Originally posted 12 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves ensuring the safety of AI-based autonomous system software within the NVIDIA Halos team.
What you'll do
- Ensure the safety of AI-based autonomous system software.
- Guide teams to specify, build, implement, and verify safety requirements across the software stack.
- Help integrate the process principles of AI safety into the Product Life Cycle.
- Engage in customer interaction and international standardization activities related to AI safety.
- Support system safety activities including decomposition of safety requirements and architectural safety analysis across hardware and software boundaries.
- Collaborate with external certification bodies, assessors, and regulators to justify safety arguments and evidence for successful safety certification reviews.
What you'll need
- BS, MS, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- 12+ years of experience in Artificial Intelligence and SW safety related processes, methodologies, tools.
- Experience in AI safety methods and tools (adaptability testing, uncertainty evaluation, out of distribution detection).
- Familiarity with system software development and embedded platforms.
- Experience producing safety plans, safety analyses reports, safety case documentation, and evidence packets.
Skills: Software Safety Engineer, AI safety, ISO 26262, system safety activities, embedded platforms
More semiconductor jobs: NVIDIA jobs · Functional safety jobs
This role has been open 23 days — well below the 68-day median for Automotive/Functional Safety Engineering roles.
Automotive/Functional Safety Engineering · Automotive Safety
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Open roles in category
120
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Median days open
68 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$246k
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| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (120 roles · 28 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 19 | 120 |
| Median days open | 72 d | 68 d (+4 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $246k |
Skills observed across this category: Software Safety Engineer, AI safety, ISO 26262, system safety activities, embedded platforms
Who's hiring in this category
- NXP Semiconductors · 27 open roles · median 44 d
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 19 open roles · median 73 d
- Infineon Technologies · 12 open roles · median 62 d
- Qualcomm · 9 open roles · median 211 d
- Renesas Electronics · 9 open roles · median 65 d
- Arm Holdings · 5 open roles · median 9 d
How we counted: 120 open Automotive/Functional Safety Engineering (Automotive Safety) roles from 28 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 6 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.