Senior Systems & Safety Engineer

About Vay

Vay is transforming urban mobility with the world’s first commercially deployed Remote Driving technology. Customers simply request a vehicle through the Vay app, and a car arrives with no one inside, operated remotely on public roads.

Already operating in Las Vegas and expanding rapidly across the United States and Europe, Vay is building a faster, cleaner alternative to private car ownership. Backed by strategic investment of up to $410 million, we’re shaping the future of transportation.

Key achievements include:

• Among the first companies to operate remotely driven vehicles on public roads in both Europe and the United States.
• One of the largest commercial driverless vehicle fleets in the Western world.
• Strategic partnership with Kodiak to bring remote-driving technology to autonomous trucking.
• Successfully completed tens of thousands of customer trips with continued fleet expansion.

The Role

We are seeking a Senior System & Safety Engineer to play a critical role in designing and validating the system architecture and functional safety of Vay’s Remote Driving platform.

Working across software, hardware, cloud infrastructure, and vehicle systems, you will help ensure our technology operates safely, reliably, and at scale in real-world environments.

What You’ll Do

• Define and evolve system architecture and requirements across ECUs, motion control, connectivity, and cloud interfaces.
• Design and validate safety mechanisms, including redundancy, fail-safe and fail-operational behaviors, and minimum risk manoeuvres.
• Plan and execute vehicle-level testing to verify system performance and safety responses.
• Develop monitoring frameworks and dashboards to track system health, detect faults, and reduce downtime.
• Own the functional safety concept in accordance with ISO 26262, including safety goals, Functional Safety Concepts (FSC), and Technical Safety Concepts (TSC).
• Build and maintain the safety case to support audits and regulatory compliance.
• Lead safety analyses, including HARA, FMEA, and FTA, ensuring complete traceability from hazard identification through verification.

What You’ll Bring

• Strong experience in systems engineering for complex, multidisciplinary products.
• Hands-on experience with functional safety standards such as ISO 26262, IEC 61508, or DO-178.
• Experience performing HARA, deriving ASIL classifications, and developing Functional and Technical Safety Requirements.
• Ability to translate high-level product needs into structured, testable system requirements.
• Solid understanding of system architecture across hardware and software domains.
• Experience with requirements management tools such as DOORS, Polarion, Jama, or Flow Engineering.
• Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills.
• Analytical thinking with excellent attention to detail.

Nice to Have

• Experience with SOTIF (ISO 21448).
• Knowledge of automotive cybersecurity standards such as ISO/SAE 21434.
• Familiarity with ASPICE processes and assessments.
• Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), SysML, or Cameo.
• Background in teleoperations, remote driving, or autonomous vehicle technologies.

What We Offer

• Opportunity to help build the future of transportation with a fast-growing global technology company.
• Collaborate with an international team representing more than 30 countries.
• Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP).
• Unlimited paid vacation.
• Subsidized Deutschland Ticket.
• Urban Sports Club or FitX membership subsidy.
• 30% discount on Vay rides.
• Exclusive employee discounts.
• €350 home office setup allowance.
• Relocation assistance for employees moving to Berlin.
• Fully funded German language lessons.
• Regular company and team events.

Diversity & Inclusion

Vay is committed to building an inclusive workplace where diverse perspectives drive innovation. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and encourage anyone excited about shaping the future of mobility to apply.