Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies

Sr. Functional Safety Engineer

Full-time · Palo Alto, California (Remote)
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Mid-level · 3+ yrs exp

Requirements

Education: Bachelor's degree

Experience: 3+ years

Skills & tools

Hazard AnalysisElectricalAerospaceElectronics
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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.

- 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, FMEDA) 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 Analysis), 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.

- 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 26262:2018 Part 5 and ISO 26262:2018 Part 11 or IEC 61508 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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