Staff System Engineer – ADAS/AD Safety
Lucid MotorsNewark, CAPosted 11 February 2026
Job Description
<div class="content-intro"><div><u><strong>Leading the future in luxury electric and mobility</strong></u></div>
<div>At Lucid, we set out to introduce the most captivating, luxury electric vehicles that elevate the human experience and transcend the perceived limitations of space, performance, and intelligence. Vehicles that are intuitive, liberating, and designed for the future of mobility.</div>
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<div>We plan to lead in this new era of luxury electric by returning to the fundamentals of great design – where every decision we make is in service of the individual and environment. Because when you are no longer bound by convention, you are free to define your own experience.</div>
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<div>Come work alongside some of the most accomplished minds in the industry. Beyond providing competitive salaries, we’re providing a community for innovators who want to make an immediate and significant impact. If you are driven to create a better, more sustainable future, then this is the right place for you.</div></div><h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Leading the future in luxury electric and mobility</span></h3>
<p>At Lucid, we set out to introduce the most captivating, luxury electric vehicles that elevate the human experience and transcend the perceived limitations of space, performance, and intelligence. Vehicles that are intuitive, liberating, and designed for the future of mobility.</p>
<p>We plan to lead in this new era of luxury electric by returning to the fundamentals of great design – where every decision we make is in service of the individual and environment. Because when you are no longer bound by convention, you are free to define your own experience.</p>
<p>Come work alongside some of the most accomplished minds in the industry. Beyond providing competitive salaries, we’re providing a community for innovators who want to make an immediate and significant impact. If you are driven to create a better, more sustainable future, then this is the right place for you.</p>
<p>We are currently seeking Staff System Engineer – ADAS/AD Safety to join our ADAS/AD team.</p>
<p>We are looking for a system safety engineer who will lead the functional safety (ISO 26262) and SOTIF foundation for our ADAS features, while also owning the safety case framework for our higher-level automated driving functions. This role establishes the core safety processes, artifacts, and safety case architecture that the company will scale as our products evolve.</p>
<p>This is a hands-on technical role with significant influence on process, tooling, and culture. You will be the internal reference for safety case thinking and modern safety standards (ISO 26262, SOTIF, UL 4600, etc.).</p>
<p>This role is located on-site at Headquarters in Newark, CA.</p>
<p><strong>Role Responsibilities:</strong></p>
<p>· Collaborate with the Function Safety team to jointly review and align on HARA, Safety Goals (SG), for ADAS and AD features.</p>
<p>· Own the derivation and authoring of Technical Safety Concepts and Technical Safety Requirements, ensuring proper allocation to sensors, ECUs, software modules, actuators, vehicle networks, and operational assets.</p>
<p>· Integrate SOTIF thinking into the safety case: performance limitations, triggering conditions, misuse and edge-case scenarios, especially for perception and AI/ML components.</p>
<p>· Define and own the end-to-end safety case framework for ADAS/AD stack (structure, claims, argumentation style, and evidence model).</p>
<p>· Identify top-level safety objectives and transform them into safety case claims, sub-claims, and required evidence (e.g., using GSN or ... (truncated, view full listing at source)
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