# Safety Validation Lead, Scenarios at Atoms

- Company: Atoms
- What the company does: Backed by Initial Capital.
- Company website: https://atoms.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $182K to $231K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-01
- Apply by: 2026-10-16
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/atoms/jobs/8769769002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/atoms-safety-validation-lead-scenarios/

## About the role

This role owns the safety-relevant scenarios we validate against. You will define what makes a scenario safety-relevant, build the catalog, and own the argument that it is sufficient.

## What they're looking for

- 8+ years in safety validation, verification, or test engineering for automated vehicles, ADAS, or another safety-critical domain, hands-on rather than test management alone
- You have built or substantially shaped a scenario catalog scoped to a defined operating domain, and defended its sufficiency to someone who pushed back
- ASAM OpenSCENARIO and OpenDRIVE, hands-on, ISO 21448 (SOTIF) and ISO 34502, and an informed view of where simulation evidence is credible and where it is not
- Strong Python and direct work with large volumes of vehicle log data, plus tooling other engineers ran for their own work rather than only your own
- Fluency with claim, argument and evidence as distinct things. You can say what a result actually supports, and you do not present evidence as though it were the claim

Tags: Transport - Engineering