Staff Functional Safety Engineer

Responsibilities

• Develop Hardware FTA, FMEA & FMEDA’s, DFA for electrical hardware design
• Serve as the Safety expert in safety-critical cross-functional design decisions
• Support the reliability organization in deriving mission profiles and FIT rates for hardware components using IEC or Siemens standards
• Develop hardware safety concepts, hardware safety architecture, hardware safety requirements to lead/drive and provide electrical hardware design recommendations across electronics subsystems, ASICs, SoCs, PMICs and microcontrollers
• Collaborate with Reliability organization in defining mission profiles based on vehicle use cases
• Develop upstream and downstream traceability between hardware safety, technical safety requirements, relevant test cases, and work products in traceability tool
• Support the electrical hardware and power electronics software/controls test teams in executing test cases with troubleshooting
• Support vehicle functional safety team in development of technical safety requirements and hazard analysis risk assessment
• Documenting all relevant safety requirements, analysis, architecture implementation, verification and validation events for each sub-system
• Authoring and reviewing high-level safety documentation
• Driving functional safety design processes across the organization and being part of the safety culture within the organization

Requirements

• BS, MS, or PhD in Electrical/Electronic Engineering
• Embedded systems design experience
• 5+ Years of experience in developing electrical safety hardware, systems safety, and functional safety engineering background in ISO 26262 Part 4, 5, 8 within the automotive or equivalent industries (e.g. aerospace) or IEC 61508 Part 1, 2 & 3
• Strong understanding of failure mode analysis of complex electrical designs, ASICs, preferably in power electronics applications
• Extensive knowledge and application of Safety Analysis methodologies using industry-standard tools, from functional system level to HW and SW component level: FTA, FMEA, FMEDA, DFA, STPA, SPFM/LFM, and PMHFD
• Detailed experience analyzing electrical circuits, preferably in power electronics applications
• Prior experience performing hardware FTAs, FMEDAs, DFAs at the component level
• Able to understand and create traceability in JAMA or similar requirements management tool
• Working within cross-functional teams - systems hardware, software, mechanical, manufacturing, and a proven record of working on multiple projects involving safety engineering
• Able to work with resilience, zooming out and out-of-the-box thinking
• Strong team player with a drive to exceed expectations and meet deadlines
• Tool expertise with Medini, Flow, or similar strongly preferred
• Experience with LTSpice or similar simulation tool with prior experience of simulating circuits strongly preferred

Qualifications

• Failure effects ISO 26262 Certified strongly preferred

Pay

The salary range for this role is USD 171,100-213,900 for Southern California based applicants, and USD 186,000-232,500 for Northern California based applicants.

Benefits

• Paid vacation
• Paid sick leave
• Competitive portfolio of insurance benefits including life, medical, dental, vision, short-term disability insurance, and long-term disability insurance
• 401(k) Plan
• Employee Stock Purchase Program