Functional Safety Lead/Manager

Job Description:

We are seeking engineers with experience in system and device level functional safety concepts and implementations. This position will be a hands-on role in analysing Functional Safety concepts and requirements in existing and next generation devices offered by our HSD Analog team.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for functional safety development of High Speed Digital device Hardware and Firmware;
• Responsible for establishing a device development that meets functional safety regulations, identifying, planning, organizing, tracking and recording all functional safety work matters in the product development cycle;
• Plan and organize the safety assessment and audit, analysis and review of all functional safety products, organize and guide the DFMEA, FMA/FTA, FMEDA activities, etc.;
• Based on functional safety, participate in the design of software and hardware to ensure that product functional safety development meets regulatory requirements;
• Responsible for maintaining functional safety processes, and ensuring compliance with functional safety standards during product development;
• Organize the verification and confirmation of functional safety objectives and create and analyse functional safety status reports;
• Participate in functional safety assessment of customers and suppliers.
• Developing and maintaining the project safety plan including tailoring of safety lifecycle to project specific activities
• Collaborating with project leader & program manager to assure the integration of safety activities within the overall project plan
• Planning, coordination and tracking of all activities encompassed in project safety plan across all phases of the project
• Scheduling functional safety confirmation measures (review, audit and assessment) to the level of independence specified in the project safety plan.
• Leading and coordinating with all contributors on creation of functional safety project deliverables and executing safety analysis (FMEDA, FMEA, FTA, DFA)
• Conducting safety analyses, both quantitative and qualitative, fault campaigns on automotive hardware designs and identify areas of improvement.
• Working with vendors and partners (if required) to ensure functional safety requirements are fulfilled by the components that they provide
• Regular reporting to project team and central functional safety function by creating project safety dashboard and laying escalation paths to foresee and avoid delays
• Interfacing with customers on functional safety project life-cycle and architecture definition and to support System level safety assessments

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• 5-10 years relevant industry experience in software development on embedded devices.
• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Electronics/Electrical/Computer Science

Skills needed:

• Education: Bachelor degree or above;
• Professional: automotive electronic control and other related professional;

• 5+ years Automotive experience and familiarity with Safety work products, experience with Functional Safety Hardware and/or Software development in semiconductor industry meeting IS0 26262/ IEC 61508 standards - Fully participated with key contribution in safety aspect in at least one automotive electronic and electrical project that meets ISO26262:

• Proficient in ISO26262 standard, good at FMEA/FMA, FMEDA, HARA, DFA, Co-existence analysis methods

• Familiar with software and hardware development and testing process of automotive electronic and electrical products;
• Familiar with functional safety development process and functional safety related tools;

• Functional safety engineer qualification is preferred, Automotive SPICE development process is preferred.

• Prior automotive experience in ADAS and self-driving systems preferred.

• System level Functional safety analysis experience on Hardware/Software components integration preferred
• SoC/IP integration or verification with good understanding of SoC Architecture and IP design experience preferred
• Requirements Management Tools and establishing traceability for functional safety requirements e.g. DOORS, etc.
• Familiarity with Failure Modes and Effect Analysis (FMEA) and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) is required experience using tools to perform FMEA, FTA preferred
• Familiarity with hardware failure rate calculation (FMEDA) experience using Siemens 29500 and/or IEC 62380 preferred