LER TechForce ยท 1 month ago
Automotive Functional Safety Manager
Columbus, IN
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
2+ years expLER TechForce is an industry leader in embedded controls, software, functional safety, and engineering talent. The Automotive Functional Safety Manager will develop the Functional Safety organization for EV components and lead safety engineering through all phases, ensuring compliance with safety standards.
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Responsibilities
Develop the Functional Safety organization for EV components (battery, converter, motor control etc.) products
Requirements development and implementation of ISO26262 work products
OBD 3-Step development on for various FuSa diagnostics
Provide technical advice on applying ISO26262 across multiple CSAR based engine programs
Conducts standard safety analyses, by applying functional safety standards and principles to provide feedback and guidance to the engineering design teams for systems, hardware, and software on safety findings and to recommended design changes that improve automotive embedded safety systems and ensure their compliance to safety goals
Lead the safety plan and enable the project team through all phases of safety engineering: requirements elicitation, item definitions, preliminary hazard analysis and risk assessment, functional safety concept, technical safety concept, item integration, safety validation
Perform technical analysis and provide results to support the development of the safety concept and artifacts of the safety case: hazard and risk assessment, hazard metric translation, define safety goals and criteria, ASIL decomposition, FMEA and FTA analysis
Consult and collaborate with the software design teams to achieve effective technical solutions and ensure that all safety requirements are robust at the systems level, hardware interface level and software architectural levels
Analyzes/defines the functional safety requirements within the project based on the customer requirements. Understands/analyzes the requirements from the end user perspective while considering constraints and safety standards as the main objective
Carries out the design analysis to support the development of safety case arguments
Creates/updates the hazard and risk analyses, safety plan, functional and technical safety concept
Specifies safety requirements and safety concepts for system/components
Supports the definition/specification of safety requirements for hardware and software architectures
Judges if system design/architecture can fulfill requirements, considering hardware-software components, interfaces, functional and environmental dependencies, using basic understanding of computer/vehicle networks, hardware, and software design
Collaborates with the design team in the design of effective technical solutions aimed to achieve adequate robustness at System, HW and SW architectural level in compliance with ISO26262
Leads/supports Safety Assessment Reviews
Leads/performs safety analysis using standard deductive (FMEA, FMEDA...) and inductive (H&R, FTA) methods, the outcomes of these analyses will inform to the system design/architecture responsible
Supports the safety verification & validation activities
Leads/participates in safety review meetings
Actively participates in product development, including planning and monitoring of safety plans and their validation testing
Qualification
Required
Bachelors in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Control Engineering, Physics or related if combined with development engineering experience in embedded control systems
Minimum of 2+ years' experience as a safety analyst in an automotive environment
Previous experience with Embedded Electronic Controls systems (BMS, motor control, electric motors, inverter etc.)
Experience in applying safety according to ISO Client 26262 standards, or secondly IEC 61508 standard
Good understanding of embedded Software engineering and Hardware engineering domains
Automotive product engineering experience working in product development with OEM
Preferred
FTA
FMEA
Failure metrics analysis in accordance with ISO Client-26262 and/or Safe Failure Fraction in accordance with IEC-61508
OBD Diagnostics
Reliability Predictions
Benefits
Full benefits: medical, dental, vision, HSA and FSA
401K with a match and immediate vesting
Short-term & Long-term disability, life insurance and other optional benefits
Employee Assistance Program
Employee Discounts
Ongoing professional development opportunities including Technical Training and Leadership Development
The opportunity to work on industry leading projects
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