Functional Safety Architect

Responsibilities:

• Define functional safety strategy for complex automotive systems, aligning with industry best practices, regulatory requirements and ensuring adherence to ISO 26262 standards up to ASIL D.
• As a Functional safety architect, own the entire ECU safety strategy, including hardware, software, and HSI.
• Develop and maintain the Safety Concept, including Functional Safety Requirements (FSRs) and Technical Safety Requirements (TSRs).
• Lead the Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment (HARA) process to identify potential hazards and define safety goals.
• Define safety architectures, considering hardware and software partitioning, redundancy, and fault-tolerant mechanisms.
• Perform quantitative and qualitative safety analyses, including Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), and Dependent Failure Analysis (DFA).
• Safety Mechanisms and Safe State: specifying fault detection, isolation, and recovery mechanisms. Like safe state definitions and fault reaction mechanisms as part of architecture design.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including hardware, software, and systems engineering, to ensure seamless integration of safety features.
• Oversee the development of safety-related software components, ensuring compliance with MISRA C/C++ coding standards and other relevant guidelines.
• Plan and execute safety verification and validation activities, including unit testing, integration testing, and system testing and contribution to the overall test concept
• Leading safety case development and readiness for external audits.
• Actively participate in SAFe Agile Release Trains (ARTs), contributing to PI planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives

Requisites (Skills & Experience)

• 8+ years of experience in functional safety engineering in development of complex safety-critical systems/ electronic control unit.
• Proficiency in safety analysis techniques (FMEA, FTA, DFA, FMEDA).
• Experience with embedded software development in MATLAB Simulink, C/C++ and adherence to MISRA coding standards and guidelines
• Knowledge of hardware/software integration and testing methodologies for safety-critical systems.
• Experience and knowledge of automotive hardware architectures, including microcontrollers (e.g. Renesas U2B Microcontroller) Autosar Classic, Basic Software Vector Stack, sensors, communication interfaces and associated safety mechanisms.
• Strong understanding of real-time operating systems (RTOS) and their impact on functional safety.
• Familiarity with automotive cybersecurity standards and their impact on functional safety.
• Experience with requirements management tools (e.g., IBM DOORS, PREEVision), configuration management tools (e.g., GiT lab)
• Collaboration, working experience with Tier1 OEM and stakeholder management
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and critical thinking skills.

Modern Practices: Passion for state-of-the-art software engineering practices. Strong DevOps mindset with technical understanding of related technologies, emphasizing CI/CD, TDD, Everything-as-Code, and DevOps practices.

Growth Mindset: Readiness to accept challenges and push boundaries. Excitement for being part of something new, building a new organization from scratch.

Education Qualifications

• Bachelors or masters degree in electrical engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field with a focus on embedded systems and functional safety.
• Relevant certifications such as:
  • Certified Automotive Functional Safety Professional or Engineer
  • Agile certifications like Scrum Master or Agile Practitioner

Good to Have Skills

• Experience with developing safety-critical systems using model-based design techniques (e.g., Simulink).
• Experience with AUTOSAR architecture and safety-related modules.
• Programming skills in additional languages like C, C++, or Java
• Exposure to continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines in automotive software development
• Strong critical thinking skills with the ability to analyze complex systems.
• Ability to work in a multicultural and distributed team environment.