Senior Functional Safety Engineer

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🕒 July 28

🏢🏡 Palo Alto – Hybrid

💵 $146.9k - $183.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

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Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2024

🚘 Automotive

🤝 B2B

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Automotive • B2B • Artificial Intelligence

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is a joint venture between Rivian and Volkswagen focused on advancing software-defined vehicles. The company develops vehicle operating systems, zonal controllers, cloud and connectivity solutions, and in-vehicle intelligence (including AI and security) to enable more intelligent, sustainable and updatable electric vehicles. It partners with major automotive brands to deliver B2B vehicle software platforms and tools that accelerate the global transition to electric vehicles and standardize next-generation vehicle software architectures.

📋 Description

• 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 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.

🏖️ Benefits

• Full-time positions include base salary • eligibility for an annual performance bonus • eligibility for equity • benefits tailored to the local market