Hardware Functional Safety Engineer
Farmington Hills, Mi Remote
Responsibilities:
- Requirements Analysis: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze and refine technical safety requirements, and define hardware safety requirement, ensuring clear documentation and traceability throughout the development lifecycle.
- Hardware-Software Integration: Utilize your expertise in embedded hardware design, communication protocols (I2C, UART, IPC, CAN, etc.), and hardware-software interfaces (HSI) to facilitate seamless integration between software and hardware components.
- Safety Analyses: Perform safety analyses such as FMEDA, HW-based FMEA, FTA, and DFA to identify potential hazards, assess risks, and design appropriate safety measures.
- Hardware Development: Contribute design experience for embedded systems in the automotive industry to the design and implementation of safety-critical hardware components.
- Verification and Validation: Develop and execute safety verification plans, including unit, integration, and qualification testing, while ensuring compliance with ISO 26262 Part 5 and Part 8 standards.
- Documentation: Generate comprehensive safety documentation, including hardware safety analysis reports, and verification specifications, to provide clear evidence of safety compliance.
- Change Management: Implement effective change management processes, ensuring that safety requirements are maintained and adhered to throughout the development lifecycle.
- ASIL Decomposition: Apply your experience in ASIL decomposition to identify and allocate safety requirements across subsystems, ensuring that safety integrity levels are met.
- Continuous Improvement: Stay up-to-date with industry best practices, advancements, and trends in functional safety and contribute innovative ideas to enhance our safety processes.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- 10 plus years of experience in Embedded Hardware Development, with design experience with embedded processors, power supplies, passive devices, crystals, discrete semiconductors, high speed peripherals, and analog circuits. Ability to use your understanding and expertise with these components as it relates to Functional Safety.
- Bench testing and debug expertise, including use of oscilloscopes, power supplies, probes (current, FET, near field), spectrum analyzers, signal generators, and logic analyzers.
- Experience with soldering and basic debug strongly preferred.
- Expertise in ISO 26262 standards, particularly Parts 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, and 10, and hands-on experience applying these standards to safety-critical automotive systems.
- Experience with communication protocols (I2C, UART, IPC, CAN, etc.) and hardware-software interfaces (HSI).
- Expertise in safety analyses techniques (FMEA, FMEDA, FTA, DFA) and experience conducting safety analyses to identify potential hazards and assess risks.
- Experience with hardware verification and validation.
- Effective communication skills, with the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and convey complex technical concepts.
- Automotive industry experience is preferred, especially in the context of safety-critical systems.
- Certifications such as Certified Functional Safety Professional (CFSP), FuSa are a strong advantage.
If you are a motivated and detail-oriented Hardware Engineer – Functional Safety with a deep commitment to ensuring functional safety in automotive systems, we encourage you to join our client’s team. Contribute your expertise to shaping the future of safety and play a pivotal role in building systems that prioritize the safety of users and the community.
Join us in advancing safety excellence. Apply now!
