Lead Test Engineer AV Safety Assurance

You will own how safety is tested, judged and reported across our QA team. Our Head of Safety owns the company's safety framework and the safety case built on top of it. You own the layer beneath: the gates, the criteria and the reports that turn day-to-day testing into evidence that argument can rest on.

The hard part of this is not the collisions. Those are obvious, and nobody argues about them. It is everything short of a collision the near miss, the late brake, the hesitation at an intersection that looked wrong to one engineer and fine to another where the judgement has to be made and then made the same way again next week, by someone else, on a different run. Turning that into criteria a whole team applies consistently is the craft of this role.

You will lead through process and through people who do not report to you.

• Own the safety gates. What counts as a safety-relevant finding, how it is classified and escalated, the criteria that hold a merge or a release, and how findings are tracked to closure with the recurring ones feeding back into the criteria.