Title: AI & Machine Learning Safety Engineer learning path
URL: https://iso26262.academy/path/ai-safety-engineer
Description: ISO 8800 and SOTIF for learned functions: arguing a component you did not specify line by line.

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**ISO 26262 Academy** · Learning path · open to read

# AI & Machine Learning Safety Engineer

ISO 8800 and SOTIF for learned functions: arguing a component you did not specify line by line.

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- **5** weeks
- **18** items
- **17** hours
- **0** free with an account

Career Path gives you an assessment and a roadmap based on your experience and goals. This track is the fixed schedule for one role.

The schedule

## Week by week.

Guides, practice and checks in the order they build on each other. Open a guide to see what it covers; each item shows every plan that includes it.

1. **Week 1** Functional safety foundations → Safety-aware machine learning 3h 53m
   - Quiz Calibration: foundations12 questions 20m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced)
   - Read [Safety-aware machine learning (ISO 8800)](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/safety-ml-engineering-iso8800) 1h 5m [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced)
   - Quiz Quiz: ML safety lifecycle10 questions 18m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced)
   - Read [SOTIF for the functional safety engineer](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/sotif-for-fusi) 2h 10m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced)
2. **Week 2** SOTIF for learned functions → Perception as a safety function 3h 50m
   - Read [AV safety in practice (part 2 of 2)](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/av-safety-iso-sotif-ml) Second half: machine learning in the loop, validation targets and residual risk. 1h 45m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced)
   - Quiz Quiz: SOTIF for ML12 questions 20m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced)
   - Read [Perception system safety](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/perception-system-safety) 1h 45m [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced)
3. **Week 3** Perception as a safety function → Running ML safely on the vehicle 3h 26m
   - Read [Safety analyses compared](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/safety-analyses) 30m [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced)
   - Quiz Quiz: perception safety10 questions 18m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced)
   - Read [Multi-core safety architectures](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/multi-core-safety) 1h [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced)
   - Read [Hypervisors & mixed criticality](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/hypervisors-mixed-criticality) 1h [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced)
   - Read [Freedom from interference](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/freedom-from-interference) 20m [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced)
   - Quiz Quiz: ML platform10 questions 18m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced)
4. **Week 4** Assuring a learned system 3h 5m
   - Read [Model-based development](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/model-based-development) 1h 25m [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced)
   - Read [Safety case development](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/safety-case) 1h 40m [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced)
5. **Week 5** Assuring a learned system 2h 45m
   - Read [GSN: goal structuring notation](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/gsn) 1h 35m [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced)
   - Simulator Simulator: build a safety case in GSN 50m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced)
   - Quiz Quiz: assurance12 questions 20m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced)

Templates

### 48 work-product templates come with this path

Ready-to-adapt documents matched to the modules above. Reference material, not extra hours on your schedule.

- Functional Safety Concept
- HAZOP Worksheet
- Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment Report
- Item Definition
- Motorcycle HARA Verification Report
- Motorcycle Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment
- Motorcycle Item Definition
- Verification Report of the Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment
- AI Component or System Architecture (Refined)
- AI Component or System Development Process (Refined)
- AI Input Space Definition (Refined)
- AI Safety Requirements
- +36 more

Start this path

## Week one starts _with a free account._

The free plan opens the first items on every track: one full concept guide, 3 templates, 1 process, the Markov and RBD simulators and 5 practice exams a month. Pro and Expert unlock the rest of the schedule.

[Start this path](https://iso26262.academy/register?plan=free&from=%2Fpath%2Fai-safety-engineer) [What Pro and Expert unlock](https://iso26262.academy/pricing)