Staff Safety Integration Engineer

About the position

The Staff Safety Integration Engineer will be responsible for managing the technical project management process for vehicle safety, focusing on performance, budget, and timing while maintaining strong relationships with external function group Technical Program Managers and stakeholders. This role is essential to ensuring the seamless integration of multiple safety load cases, ensuring that cross-functional dependencies are met, and the project milestones are delivered on time and within budget.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional integration efforts, and secures stakeholder buy-in for vehicle safety programs, ensuring that all function group domains and program management are aligned with technical objectives, and schedules.
• Provide a single point of contact for external TPMs and program management, ensuring clear communication and maintaining consistent messaging from the internal teams.
• Lead and coordinate the preparation of performance reports and status updates for key internal and external stakeholders.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure integration requirements are identified, tracked, and resolved in alignment with program objectives.
• Monitor and manage integration activities, proactively identifying risks and issues and driving resolutions.
• Ensure that integration processes are documented and adhered to, in alignment with best practices and company standards.
• Manage external stakeholder relationships to ensure smooth communication and integration throughout the vehicle development lifecycle.
• Represent safety to external stakeholders, ensuring that the vehicle safety program challenges and opportunities are communicated clearly and effectively.
• Ensure the integration efforts are aligned with broader strategic objectives and that the integration timelines are met.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field.
• 10+ years experience in automotive safety, vehicle testing, or system integration.
• Ability to travel to vehicle and component launch locations.
• Strong working knowledge of FMVSS, ECE, NCAP and other automotive safety evaluation preferred.
• Proven project management experience, with expertise in tracking milestones, managing risks, and coordinating teams.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to anticipate and address potential roadblocks in safety system development.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills, ensuring clear expectations and structured execution of safety initiatives.

Benefits

• Robust medical/Rx, dental and vision insurance packages for full-time employees, their spouse or domestic partner, and children up to age 26.
• Coverage is effective on the first day of employment, and Rivian covers most of the premiums.