Senior Technical Project Manager — Safety Case (Vehicle Hardware)

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What we are looking for

Aurora hires talented people with diverse backgrounds who are ready to help build a transportation ecosystem that will make our roads safer get crucial goods where they need to go and make mobility more efficient and accessible for all.Were searching for a Senior Technical Project Manager Safety Case (Vehicle / Hardware).

We are searching for a Senior Technical Project Manager to drive Auroras Vehicle/Hardware safety case to completion. Reporting into the Safety Case & Quality Management team you will own the program management of the Vehicle/Hardware portion of Auroras safety case end to end - planning the work coordinating the engineers who own claims and produce hardware evidence tracking progress and risk and driving each claim through to closure in support of release decisions. You will be the connective tissue between Hardware Engineering Vehicle Platform teams Systems/Safety Engineering and the Safety Org ensuring the safety case stays on schedule sufficient and audit-ready. Your work directly substantiates that the Aurora-equipped vehicle is acceptably safe to operate on public roads.

You will turn the enterprise Safety Case Lifecycle Process into executed reality for the Vehicle/Hardware module: scoping impacted claims at each milestone establishing Definitions of Done and timelines orchestrating hardware evidence development and release assessing sufficiency against Auroras Maturity Rubric managing unsatisfied claims as accepted risks and keeping evidence fresh across milestone and non-milestone releases. You will maintain the live picture of safety case health and progress and your reporting will feed the Safety Review Boards Go/No-Go decisions for releases . This is a hands-on technical program role - equal parts project management hardware safety-case engineering judgment and cross-functional leadership.

In this role you will

• Own the program management of the Vehicle/Hardware safety case end to end - planning scoping scheduling and driving claims to closure across releases.
• Scope claims impacted by each milestone and platform change set Definitions of Done and timelines and coordinate the engineers who produce the hardware evidence.
• Drive evidence to sufficiency - released version-controlled and assessed - and progress each claim through the safety case workflow to closure while preserving independence.
• Manage safety risk for unsatisfied claims through accepted RISK tickets and keep the live picture of safety case health progress and evidence freshness.
• Compile hardware inputs to release closure reports support SRB Go/No-Go decisions and drive continuous improvement of Definitions of Done and the Framework.
• Support internal and external safety case audits and assessments and mentor claim and evidence owners on the process and tooling.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Mechanical Engineering or equivalent applicable technical experience.
• 5 years of experience in technical program/project management hardware/systems engineering functional safety or safety case / assurance-case development including leading cross-functional technical programs to schedule.
• Demonstrated experience in a safety-critical hardware domain (e.g. automotive aerospace industrial medical devices).
• Proven program-management skills: planning tracking risk and dependency management and driving deliverables to closure across multiple contributing teams.
• Working knowledge of safety/assurance case methods (claimsargumentsevidence or GSN) and of ISO 26262 (especially Part 5 hardware development and the hardware metrics in Part 5/Annexes) with familiarity in ASPICE.
• Familiarity with hardware safety evidence - hardware architecture and design FMEA/FMEDA diagnostic coverage FIT-rate / PMHF and reliability analyses component and HW verification/qualification artifacts - under document and configuration control with the technical depth to judge sufficiency.
• Proficiency with Jira and Confluence for workflow and program tracking and with requirements/traceability tooling (e.g. Jama); able to build and maintain status dashboards and reports.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills with the ability to convey status risk and recommendations clearly to engineering teams and senior leadership.
• Ability to work independently lead a cross-functional program and influence without direct authority across hardware vehicle platform and safety organizations.

Desirable Qualifications

• Advanced degree in a relevant technical field and/or a program-management credential (e.g. PMP).
• Familiarity with UL 4600 (autonomous systems safety) and ISO/SAE 21434 (cybersecurity) as complementary standards.
• Hands-on experience with hardware safety analysis tooling (e.g. FMEDA / reliability tools) and with sensor compute or actuation hardware in a vehicle context.
• Experience preparing for or supporting external assessments (e.g. TÜV ISO 26262 hardware assessments) and managing findings to closure.
• Experience with the transition of a safety-critical hardware product from development to commercial deployment including across multiple vehicle platforms.
• Experience building quality/assurance metrics and dashboards (e.g. AWS QuickSight S3 Lambda) for evidence-health monitoring.
• Experience developing process and training materials for safety case or QMS adoption.

The base salary range for this position is $150000-$240000per year. Auroras pay ranges are determined by role level and location. Within the range the successful candidates starting base pay will be determined based on factors including job-related skills experience qualifications relevant education or training and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future. The successful candidate will also be eligible for an annual bonus equity compensation and benefits.

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