Role summary
The Senior serves as the technical owner for work products and is responsible for leading the technical execution of functional safety activities throughout the product development lifecycle for high-voltage lithium-ion the organization systems at the organization (“ABS”). This position develops and maintains the technical safety deliverables and evidence required to support compliant product development. The Senior Functional Safety Engineer works closely with Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, suppliers, and customers to ensure Functional Safety requirements are effectively defined, implemented, verified, and maintained throughout the development lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the technical owner for work products throughout the product development life cycle, leading safety activities from concept through production.
- Develop and maintain deliverables, including and (), Safety goals and Automotive () classifications, functional safety architecture, Functional Safety Concept (FSC), Technical Safety Concept (TSC), (FTA), and Failure Modes, Effects, and Diagnostic Analysis ().
- Develop and allocate into the system architecture, ensuring complete bidirectional traceability across all safety work products.
- Perform and document analyses, including Single-Point Fault Metric (SPFM), Latent Fault Metric (LFM), Probabilistic Metric for Random Hardware Failures (PMHF), diagnostic coverage, dependent failure analysis, and evaluation of safety mechanisms and fault-tolerant architectures.
- Develop verification and validation strategies, review objective evidence, and ensure compliance with Functional Safety requirements throughout the product development lifecycle.
- Generate and maintain technical evidence support Assessments, confirmation reviews, compliance audits, and safety validation activities.
- Support the development of safe the organization Management System (BMS) architectures and review safety-related hardware and electronic designs for compliance with requirements.
- Lead technical resolution of issues and support change impact analysis for safety-related design modification throughout design, verification, validation, manufacturing, or field operation.
- Support architecture trade studies balancing safety, reliability, diagnostics, performance, and cost objectives.
- Ensure alignment between activities and related engineering analyses, including DFMEA, , and FTA.
- Partner with Managers, engineering teams, customers, and suppliers to ensure compliance with organizational processes and technical safety requirements.
- Maintain documentation and evidence within engineering tools including Jama, Medini Analyze, or equivalent platforms.
- Provide technical guidance, mentoring, training, and subject matter expertise to engineering teams while supporting continuous improvement of processes, methodologies, templates, and tools.
- Stay current with standards, automotive best practices, and emerging semiconductor safety technologies.
- Adhere to federal and state regulations.
- Adhere to all company policies, processes, and procedures.
- Performs other duties as requested, directed, or assigned.
- Predictable and reliable attendance.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field required.
- Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related field preferred.
- Minimum of seven (7) years of engineering experience developing automotive or heavy-duty electrical and electronic systems.
- Minimum of five (5) years of experience applying or equivalent standards on production programs.
- Expert knowledge of and strong understanding of automotive electrical and electronic architectures.
- Demonstrated experience developing Functional Safet analyses and work products, including , FSC, TSC, FTA, , and hardware architectural metrics including SPFM, LFM, PMHF.
- Working knowledge of Medini Analyze, JAMA, Enterprise Architect, MATLAB/Simulink, or equivalent engineering tools.
- Experience developing safety-critical the organization Management Systems strongly preferred.
- Strong understanding of lithium-ion the organization systems and the organization Management Systems strongly preferred.
- Knowledge of , Automotive Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination (ASPICE), and systems engineering processes preferred.
- Influences Others: Has personal and organizational impact built on mutual trust, fairness, and honesty. Flexes their style to direct, collaborate, or empower, as the situation requires.
- Continual Improvement: Displays a consistent orientation toward producing the highest quality products or services, while keeping a focus on sustainability. Constantly looking for incremental improvements in work processes and results.
- Focuses on Quality: Drives work results with quality focus in actions and results. Applies quality mindset to adhere to company policies, procures and regulatory requirements. Utilizes technical knowledge and process to ensure specifications are met. Establishes practices to fulfill necessary customer requirements, develops and maintains processes to ensure quality measures are met.
- Delivers Results: Achievement-oriented, feeling a sense of urgency to reach goals on time, if not before.
- Takes Initiative: Exhibits strong drive for results and success; conveys a sense of urgency and drives issues to closure; persists despite obstacles and opposition.
- Business Process Thinking: Designing, implementing, and executing business workflow activities that most effectively and efficiently meet the goals of the business unit and ABS.
- Required to walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel objects; reach with hands and arms; balance; stoop; talk and hear.
- Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
- Will be placed in a comfortable office environment for approximately 80% of the work time.
- The noise level in the office environment is usually minimal.
- Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
- Constantly operates a computer and other office equipment.
- Ability to adjust focus, especially due to concentration on a computer screen.
- May need to lift and carry up to 30 pounds and/or position the body to reach items on the floor/below knee level or reach overhead.
- The noise level in the work environment can be moderately loud.
- May be required to recognize small numbers, letters, symbols, colors on prints, and/or operate field instruments/equipment.