Functional Safety Job Description
Functional Safety Duties & Responsibilities
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Functional Safety Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Functional Safety
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: ISO, TUV, FSCAE/AFSP, ISO26262, IEC, ISA, SPICE, PMP, FS
Education for Functional Safety
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Employers hiring for the functional safety job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electronics, Technical, Software Engineering, Automotive, Systems Engineering, Education
Skills for Functional Safety
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Functional Safety Examples
Functional Safety Job Description
- Participate as a representative of the PSG FuSa team within system teams for example when performing Hazard Analysis, FMEA, FTA
- Work with reliability engineering to develop HW component FIT estimations
- Create and Review Functional Safety Test and Fault Injection Test Plan with stake holders
- Lead Full/Delta Functional Safety Tests Verification and Validation on bench and vehicle
- Lead Full/Delta Fault Injection Tests Verification and Validation on bench and vehicle
- Prepare Full/Delta test reports for Functional Safety Test and Fault Injection Tests
- Perform Delta Safety Assessment (SW/Cal updates) during SW Releases
- Support Delta Safety Assessment appraisal activities with customer
- Create and Maintain project specific Functional Safety Work Products
- Ensure required Functional Safety Work Products (V&V) fulfil Delta Safety Assessment
- Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Electrical or Mechanical)
- Knowledge of function based FMEA analysis
- 2+ years in Systems Design preferably in EV or HEV systems (Hybrid Electrical Vehicle)
- MSEE or MSME graduate degree preferred
- 3+ years in Automotive Functional Safety
- Systems Engineering experience with powertrain
Functional Safety Job Description
- Support the performance of the safety & reliability analysis
- System level architectural design, capture and management of system level requirements
- Ownership of the functional safety concept
- Ownership of design verification methodologies at the system level
- Defining and populating safety cases
- Embedded hardware and Software design concepts / schematics and technical review for safety-related systems
- Provide information for tendering process and preparation of project proposals
- Leads process improvements for hazards and risks analysis and documentation
- Contributing/reviewing the main safety related workproducts safety plan, gaps analysis, safety case expected for the the activities to be done in the development
- Establish and maintain all functional safety relevant internal and external interfaces
- Experience in the use of system modeling notations such as SysML
- Development of functional safety relevant product
- Minimum Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or Aerospace Engineering
- Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or Aerospace Engineering
- Interest in the automotive industry (preferred)
- Working knowledge of electrical/electronic systems and software fundamentals (preferred)
Functional Safety Job Description
- Ensures employees complete all mandatory GM training and any specific training related to functional responsibility
- Development of technical work products specific to functional safety, hazard and risk assessment, item definition, functional safety concept, technical safety concept, technical safety requirements, FTAs, FMEDAs, criticality analyses, other safety analyses, test case specifications for safety requirements
- Perform safety activities according to the request of the Lead Safety Engineer
- Maintain and expand functional safety capabilities in the existing products
- Functional safety requirement management
- Functional safety development
- Functional safety verification and validation support
- Assist in the certification process
- Give support to the organization about safety functions
- Evangelize benefits of FPGA-based functional safety to internal and external stakeholders (including customers)
- Successful candidates should be able to demonstrate leadership behaviors combined with outstanding interpersonal, team building, and communication skills
- Experience in this domain (AV, Robotics, Aerospace)
- Extensive experience in Automotive Engineering and Development experience in Functional Safety implementation
- Identify, develop, and review safety requirements
- Allocate safety requirements to the appropriate HW and SW components according to ECU Subsystem architecture design
- Support requirement traceability/maintenance between ECU subsystem design, HW/SW components, and testing
Functional Safety Job Description
- Act as Automotive BG representative in cross-functional FuSa Core Team
- Capture, prioritize, track and communicate customer-driven FuSa deliverables
- Collaborate closely with other PSG organizations (e.g., PIPE, PSWE, Planning) to ensure we are developing a holistic FuSa solution across
- Conduct reviews with product teams to ensure functional safety standards are being met throughout product development cycles
- Drive changes needed within the organization to secure ISO26262 and IEC 61508 compliance
- Be responsible for assessing and determining product line compliance to the internal Safety Case Policy
- Direct re-use of safety cases and re-use of designs through advice, metrics reporting, and timely escalation in order to achieve the required standards of leadership in safety and cost
- Take ownership of safety process improvement
- Recognize when and how to address critical system safety topics with customers and represent the business in forums
- Be the main contributor of the implementation of a work process that is aligned to the ISO26262 and IEC 61508 standards
- DOORs, IQ RM, ITEM toolkit, Enterprise Architecture (SysML), Product Lifecycle Management tool (PLM), Medini Analyze (Functional Safety tools)
- MS, or 2-5 years industry experience
- Familiarity with Linux architecture and open-source development methodologies
- Familiarity with statistical analysis techniques and tools such as R
- Several years of experience in key areas or a related field
- Experience of automation systems, machinery and functional safety, safety PLCs and electric drives and their applications
Functional Safety Job Description
- Producing and tracking work products, such as System Safety Program Plan, Safety Manual, Safety Concepts, ASIL assignment / decomposition, Preliminary Hazard Analysis, Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment, Safety Requirements, and FTA
- Participate in evaluations of proposed technical solutions in decided architecture with the purpose to judge the possibility of developing and calibrating a SW solution
- Plan and document the system safety activities and work products in a System Safety Plan
- Provides coaching to the program’s suppliers in the area of functional safety
- Maintain an open issues list that is key for the successful tracking of issues from meetings own activities
- Confirm and verify that safety plan and safety case as developed by Functional Safety engineers will ensure functional safety relevant deliverables are met in compliance with customer & internal company product & project gateways
- Tailors the safety case of the program in collaboration with the functional safety manager and the Technical Lead
- Provides guidance to the program team in the usage of ME’s functional safety processes, templates, and guidelines as stated in GPEP
- Write and review product safety requirements and characteristics
- Ensure requirements traceability, completeness and coverage and plan improvements
- Understanding of the legislation, directives and standards that apply to machinery and work equipment
- A practical, proactive and persistent way of working
- Experience of using structured design methodologies such as UML, state transition diagrams
- Experience in Software Quality and process
- Working experience in a requirements driven process
- Experience working with automotive systems