Role summary
This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a startup environment, takes end-to-end ownership, and works cross-functionally with systems, hardware, software, verification, and quality teams to establish safety concepts, perform safety analyses, and ensure successful safety assessments.
Responsibilities
- Lead functional safety activities in accordance with and related standards.
- Perform and () and derive safety goals.
- Develop and maintain Concepts (FSC) and Technical Safety Concepts (TSC).
- Conduct and review safety analyses including
- DFMEA / PFMEA
- (FTA)
- Dependent Failure Analysis (DFA)
- Define safety requirements and work with team to ensure traceability across system, hardware, and software levels.
- Serve as a core safety expert to support development teams with safety architecture reviews and design recommendations.
- Interface with external assessors and certification bodies to support safety audits and assessments.
- Author and maintain safety work products such as
- Safety Plans
- Manuals
- Safety Requirements Specifications
- Participate in change impact analysis and manage safety lifecycle updates.
- Mentor engineering teams on functional safety best practices.
Requirements
- Education: B.Sc. or M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related field
- Experience in functional safety for automotive or safety-critical embedded systems.
- Strong working knowledge of processes and deliverables.
- Hands-on experience with safety analyses (, , FTA).
- Familiarity with system engineering workflows and V-model development (JAMA preferred)
- Demonstrated ability to analyze data and work effectively within a cross-functional team.
- Ability to communicate complex safety concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Nice to have
- Semiconductor development experience (ASIC/SoC/Mixed Signal)
- Experience with SoC, MCM, or sensor-based systems (radar, camera, LiDAR, etc.).
- Knowledge of AEC-Q qualification and automotive development processes.
- certification (e.g., TÜV).
- Exposure to ASPICE or similar development maturity models.
- Experience with safety analysis tools such as Medini Analyze or similar.
- Experience supporting Safety Element out of Context (SEooC) developments.
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