77 applicants

Company

Tata Group · 8 hours ago

Software Functional Safety Engineer

United States

Contract

Remote

Mid, Senior Level

$97K/yr - $105K/yr

5+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Perform software safety analysis of the embedded software to address safety anomalies.

Develop SW-FTA, SW-FMEA, Freedom from interference (FFI), common cause/cascading failure (CCA/CFA) and dependent failure analysis (DFA) for embedded software including low level drivers and power electronics controls design.

Develop software safety concepts, software safety requirements, software safety architecture to provide software safety design recommendations including driving reviews with the design team.

Develop software safety analysis, concepts and requirements for SoCs, microcontrollers/ICs.

Develop safety measures (e.g. Plausibility check, Memory protection, Program flow monitoring, E2E protection) in application software and/or platform software

Develop software architecture in safety critical path for different subsystems.

Support (but not develop) hardware safety analysis (FTA, FMEDA) and hardware safety requirements development.

Develop traceability between software, technical safety requirements, relevant test cases and work-products in traceability tool.

Develop Design Verification Plan (DVP) for relevant software safety requirements including fault injections.

Support the software test team in executing test cases with troubleshooting abilities.

Support vehicle functional safety team in development of technical safety requirements and hazard analysis risk assessment.

Maintenance of software safety requirements and architecture with implementation agreements.

Support defining programming and coding guidelines for the software development teams

Support tool classification and qualification across Rivian’s software toolsets

Qualification

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Embedded SystemsFunctional Safety EngineeringISO 26262Software Safety AnalysisC ProgrammingSW-FTASW-FMEACommunication ProtocolsRequirements Management ToolsEmbedded Debugging ToolsModel-Based DesignPower Electronics DesignTraceability ToolsDesign Verification PlanMediniFreeRTOSBaremetal Development

Required

MS or BS degree or PhD in Electrical, Embedded or Software Engineering

Experience with embedded systems

5+ Years of experience developing embedded software and controls with a functional safety engineering background in ISO 26262 part – 3, 4, 6 and 8.

Knowledge of communication protocols such as CAN, SPI and LIN

Experience with requirements management tools (e.g. JAMA, Doors, etc.), issue tracking tools (Jira, Bugzilla, etc.), SW version control tools (e.g. Git, Bitbucket, SVN, etc.)

Experience with C programming and/or model-based design using Simulink

Knowledge and understanding of the systems and software design architecture of Power Electronics design applications.

Knowledge of failure modes and failure effects of embedded software and controls design with prior experience in performing software FTA, FMEA, FFI, DFA, cascading and common cause analysis.

Experience/proficiency with embedded debugging tools such as PLS/ UAD or similar

Experience/proficiency with communication tools such as Wireshark, CANalyzer or CANape

Ability to work with resilience, zooming out and with out of the box thinking.

Strong team player with a drive to exceed expectations and meet deadlines.

Experience working within a cross-functional team

Bachelor's (Required)

Embedded software: 4 years (Required)

Functional Safety: 4 years (Required)

ISO 26262: 3 years (Required)

CAN, SPI and LIN: 4 years (Required)

CANalyzer or CANape: 3 years (Required)