Senior Staff/Principal System Function Safety Engineer

About the role

This role is part of the Jobright TNT - the private hiring network connecting top talent with top AI startups like Perplexity, Mercor, Cresta, Suno and 150 more. This is not a mass job posting. Only select, high-signal candidates are invited to Jobright TNT and recommended directly to hiring teams. Hiring Company: MediaTek. MediaTek is one of the world's leading fabless semiconductor companies, building industry-leading SoCs that power smartphones, smart devices, automotive, and the next generation of edge AI computing.

Why Join Us

• Generated over $19B in revenue in 2025, with flagship smartphone revenue growing over 40% YoY while powering 2B+ connected devices annually.
• Join one of MediaTek's fastest-growing engineering teams, expected to double as the company accelerates its AI computing strategy.
• Play a key role in MediaTek's transformation into an AI computing platform company, spanning flagship mobile, edge AI, AI PCs, automotive, and AI silicon.
• Solve some of the industry's toughest hardware-software co-design challenges for next-generation AI computing and flagship mobile platforms.

Responsibilities

• Interpret customers' functional safety requirements
• Derive functional and technical safety concepts from functional safety requirements
• Develop and review the system safety architectures
• Communicate and coordinate safety designs with IP teams
• Perform system safety analysis (ex: FMEDA)

Qualifications

Required

• MS+ in electronic engineering or computer science
• Experience in IC design or architecture
• Able to collaboratively work with cross-organizations
• Familiar with automotive functional safety (ISO-26262)
• Familiar with automotive system architectures

Pay

$177K/yr - $286K/yr

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  • Invited to private, invite-only hiring events with top startups

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