Senior Product Safety Architect II
May Mobility
<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">May Mobility is transforming cities through autonomous technology to create a safer, greener, more accessible world. Based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, May develops and deploys autonomous vehicles (AVs) powered by our innovative Multi-Policy Decision Making (MPDM) technology that literally reimagines the way AVs think.</span><br><br><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Our vehicles do more than just drive themselves - they provide value to communities, bridge public transit gaps and move people where they need to go safely, easily and with a lot more fun. We’re building the world’s best autonomy system to reimagine transit by minimizing congestion, expanding access and encouraging better land use in order to foster more green, vibrant and livable spaces. Since our founding in 2017, we’ve given more than 500,000 autonomous rides to real people around the globe. And we’re just getting started. We’re hiring people who share our passion for building the future, today, solving real-world problems and seeing the impact of their work. Join us.</span></p></div><h1><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Job Summary</strong></span></h1> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Senior Product Safety Architect, is responsible for defining and owning the end-to-end safety architecture for our L4 autonomous driving system, translating safety goals and hazard analyses into concrete system-level design decisions. This role requires a strong foundation in functional safety (UL 4600, ISO 26262) combined with working knowledge of AI/ML safety challenges specific to autonomous systems. The incumbent will partner closely with perception, prediction, planning, and control teams to embed safety requirements throughout the development lifecycle, and will bring an architecture mindset to ensure that safety properties are verifiable, traceable, and defensible in our safety case.</span></p> <h1><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Essential Responsibilities</strong></span></h1> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Define and own the safety architecture for our Driver Out autonomous system, establishing the system decomposition, safety mechanisms, and architectural constraints that instantiate our UL 4600 safety case claims.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Derive functional safety concepts and technical safety concepts from HARA outputs, and allocate safety requirements to AV system components (perception, prediction, planning, actuation, fallback) with clear architectural rationale per UL 4600 and ISO 26262.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Own and manage the safety plan according UL4600 and ISO26262 including a schedule to hit the company’s product launches.&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Identify and address AI/ML-specific safety risks including distributional shift, model uncertainty, and failure mode opacity; define architectural mitigations (e.g., runtime monitors, confidence thresholds, safe fallback behaviors) to maintain safety goals in the presence of learned components.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Collaborate with the development teams on every aspect of the safety plan through appropriate processes and methods to ensure on-time delivery of mature work products.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">