Sr. Functional Safety Engineer
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Role summary
Join a motivating team of experts developing Electric Vehicle technology through innovative zonal architecture development. As a key contributor, you'll play a vital role in designing and implementing Electronic Control Units (ECUs) that balance safety & performance. Your expertise will be instrumental in ensuring the development of robust, fail-safe hardware systems that set new industry standards for reliability and performance.
Responsibilities
- Design and implementation of technical safety requirements at the hardware level.
- Work with cross functional teams and hardware design engineers to implement hardware safety requirements.
- Work with various functional safety analysis methods (FTA, FMEDAFailure Modes, Effects and Diagnostic Analysis: quantitative failure analysis producing safe/dangerous failure rates and diagnostic coverage. Read more) supporting hardware architectural design.
- Apply essential experience in functional safety to derive Safety requirements, technical safety concepts, FMEDA (Failure Mode Effects & Diagnostic Analysis), FTA (Fault Tree AnalysisA top-down deductive analysis tracing an undesired top event to combinations of lower-level faults using boolean logic. Read more), DFA (Dependent Failure Analysis) and PMHF (Probability Metric for Hardware Failure) to meet functional safety requirements.
- Support the Reliability organization in deriving FIT rates for hardware components.
- Develop verification and validation methods to support testing of hardware safety requirements.
- Write test procedures and support testing of hardware sub-systems.
- Document all relevant safety requirements, analysis, architecture implementation, verification, and validation events for each sub-system.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent engineering degree.
- Have 3-5+ years of relevant experience with functional safety design in automotive, industrial or aerospace.
- Develop Systems based on ISO 26262Road Vehicles - Functional Safety. Automotive functional safety standard defining ASILAutomotive Safety Integrity Level (A to D) under ISO 26262, derived from severity, exposure, and controllability. Read more levels and the automotive safety lifecycle. Read more:2018 Part 5 and ISO 26262:2018 Part 11 or IEC 61508Functional Safety of E/E/PE Safety-Related Systems. The umbrella functional safety standard defining the safety lifecycle, SILA discrete level (SIL 1 to SIL 4) specifying the required risk reduction and dependability of a safety function under IEC 61508 and its sector standards. Read more levels, and requirements for electrical, electronic, and programmable systems. Read more Part 1, 2 & 3.
- Handling advanced electronics design and analyzing advanced electrical circuits.
- Use of deductive and inductive failure analysis tools including FTA and FMEDA.
- Handling advanced electronics design and analyzing advanced electrical circuits.
- Working within a cross-functional teams- hardware, software, mechanical, manufacturing, and proven record of working on multiple projects involving safety engineering.
- Applying knowledge of advanced electrical systems and tools to meet functional safety requirements.
- Driving functional safety design processes across the organization to meet regulatory requirements.
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