Functional Safety V & V Senior Engineer

What You'll Do

• Assist teams in developing and executing functional safety V&V strategies and their work products to develop a comprehensive Safety Case.
• Work with Ford Connected Vehicle Software and Product Data Integrity, and supplier engineering teams to identify safety-related process and work product gaps and recommend best practice solutions.
• Develop a FuSa V&V capability maturity plan working with engineering stakeholders.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience in embedded automotive safety software verification.

Technical Expertise

• Demonstrable deep understanding of ISO-26262 Part 6, including software requirements analysis, decomposition, allocation, verification.
• Software architectural design, safety analysis, safety mechanism design and implementation, software unit test, integration and verification, FFI, DFA, software design practices to ensure safety.
• Use of AI in embedded software development and verification.
• Experienced with tools commonly used in safety software test including requirements analysis, IDEs, static code analysis, code complexity metrics, code and requirement coverage, MISRA and Safe C rules checkers, debuggers, configuration management, change control, CI/CD pipelines, regression test, SIL, HIL, MIL.
• Model based software development.
• Development of software test strategies including fault injection.

Additional Experience

• Master's degree in a technical or Management field to broaden scope of activities.
• FuSa Professional Accreditation: UL, TUV, Exida or equivalent.
• Experience with software related standards development.
• Strategic and systemic thinking: Demonstrated ability to comprehend end-to-end systems of systems, apply systemic thinking, critical thinking, and strategic reasoning to identify opportunities, rapidly understand complex concerns, provide alternative solutions, and drive strategy from concept through to production.
• Innovative thinking: Understand and drive innovation and change in processes, engineering excellence, quality, and efficiency.
• Continuous improvement mindset: A drive for a system approach to design and development, coupled with a desire and curiosity to strive for exceptional delivery execution and continuous improvement.

Communication & Collaboration

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively engage with cross-functional teams, external partners, and stakeholders to drive successful feature system development projects.

Leadership

• Leadership abilities, with a track record of initiative and problem solving, delivering high-quality software that meets safety, security, and performance objectives.

Company Information

Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
Tuition assistance
Established and active employee resource groups
Paid time off for individual and team community service
A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is a salary grade 8. For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR

Visa sponsorship is NOT available for this position.

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