Senior Functional Safety Engineer
Carson, CA
Contract
Remote Roles
Pay Rate: Open on W2
Duration: 12+ months with possibility of longer term extensions
Description: This is what you'll do:
As Hardware Functional Safety Engineer working in the Electric Power Conversion group, you will be responsible for performing functional safety development of internally designed power electronics components and drive-unit systems.
Core responsibilities for this role are:
• Perform and document hardware safety analysis on the electrical hardware to address safety anomalies.
• Develop Hardware FTA, FMEA & FMEDAs, DFA for electrical hardware design.
• Support reliability organization in deriving mission profiles, FIT rates for hardware components using IEC or Siemens standards.
• Develop hardware safety concepts, hardware safety requirements to lead/drive and provide electrical hardware design recommendations.
• Develop hardware safety concepts, hardware safety analysis and requirements for SoCs, PMICs and microcontrollers.
• Develop hardware architecture in safety critical path for different subsystems.
• Support (but not develop) software safety analysis (FTA, FMEA) and software safety requirements development.
• Develop upstream and downstream traceability between hardware safety, technical safety requirements, relevant test cases and work-products in traceability tool.
• Develop Design Verification Plan (DVP) for relevant hardware safety and system safety requirements including fault injections.
• Support the electrical hardware and power electronics software/controls test teams in executing test cases with troubleshooting.
• Support vehicle functional safety team in development of technical safety requirements and hazard analysis risk assessment.
• Documenting all relevant safety requirements, analysis, architecture implementation, verification and validation events for each sub-system
this is what you'll need:
To execute the role, you will be expected to have:
• MS, BS or PhD in Electrical/Electronic Engineering
• Embedded systems design experience
• 5+ Years of experience in developing electrical safety hardware design with a functional safety engineering background in ISO 26262 part - 4,5 8 within the automotive or equivalent industries (e.g. aerospace)
• Understanding of electrical hardware design architecture preferably of Power Electronics applications.
• Detailed knowledge of electronics design and development process
• Detailed experience analyzing electrical circuits preferably in power electronics applications
• Prior experience of performing hardware FTAs, FMEDAs, DFAs at the component level.
• Ability to understand and create traceability in JAMA or similar requirements management tool.
• 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
Preferred to have:
• Tools expertise with Medini, Plato or similar strongly preferred.
• Experience with LTSpice or similar simulation tool with prior experience of simulating circuit failure effects.
• ISO 26262 Certified
You will receive the following benefits:
- Medical Insurance - Four medical plans to choose from for you and your family
- Dental & Orthodontia Benefits
- Vision Benefits
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Voluntary Life Insurance, Long-Term & Short-Term Disability Insurance
- Hospital Indemnity Insurance
- 401(k) including match with pre and post-tax options
- Paid Sick Time Leave
- Legal and Identity Protection Plans
- Pre-tax Commuter Benefit
- 529 College Saver Plan
Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Veterans/Disability/Women. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.