Jeremiah Robertson is a Principal Safety Engineering Team Lead at Motional AD where he leads the organization’s Safety of the Intended Functionality (SOTIF) workstream. As a Team Lead, Jeremiah is responsible for managing SOTIF-related tasks amongst team members and coordinating the resulting design requirements with Autonomy and Vehicle Product teams. The tasks under Jeremiah’s team include performing various hazard analysis techniques (e.g., STPA, DFMEA, FTA, etc.), identifying unknown hazard scenarios, developing and executing simulations, generating safety metrics for assessment, creating design requirements, and utilizing safety performance indicators to track safety performance over time. Previously, Jeremiah worked at Quantitative Scientific Solutions (QS-2) and Ernst & Young (EY) where he led small teams on several government-funded and commercial projects in the automated vehicle space.

The Pop in Your Job – What drives you? Why do you love your topic?
I love my job because I get to develop creative techniques that look at the safety of automated systems from new angles. There are always ways to improve the safety of a system, and most of the time creativity is the key to looking at problems from different perspectives.

Motional is making driverless vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. We’re new in name only. We’ve been revolutionizing driverless technology for decades. Our DNA — a combination of Aptiv’s expertise in automotive technology and Hyundai Motor Group’s leadership in vehicle manufacturing — is uniquely powerful, and positions us to fundamentally change how people move through their lives. We’re creating, shaping, and advancing technology capable of saving lives, time, and money.