Automotive Functional Safety Manager

Are you looking to work for a company that provides an innovative work environment, and your voice is heard? We have a position for an Automotive Functional Safety Manager.

LER Tech Force is an industry leader in embedded controls, software, functional safety, and engineering talent. For over 20 years LER has been working with customers across North America to meet their engineering resource challenges. Learn more about us: LER Tech Force:
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• Develop the Functional Safety organization for EV components (battery, converter, motor control etc.) products
• Requirements development and implementation of ISO
  26262 work products
• OBD 3-Step development on for various FuSa diagnostics
• Provide technical advice on applying ISO
  26262 across multiple CSAR based engine programs
• Conduct 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 recommend 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
• Analyze/define the functional safety requirements within the project based on the customer requirements. Understand/analyze the requirements from the end user perspective while considering constraints and safety standards as the main objective
• Carry out the design analysis to support the development of safety case arguments
• Create/updates the hazard and risk analyses, safety plan, functional and technical safety concept
• Specify safety requirements and safety concepts for system/components
• Support the definition/specification of safety requirements for hardware and software architectures
• Judge 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
• Collaborate 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 ISO
  26262
• Lead/support safety assessment reviews
• Lead/performs safety analysis using standard deductive (FMEA, FMEDA…) and inductive (H&R, FTA) methods, the outcomes of these analyses will inform the system design/architecture responsible
• Support safety verification & validation activities
• Lead/participate in safety review meetings
• Actively participate in product development, including planning and monitoring of safety plans and their validation testing

• Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Control Engineering, Physics or related if combined with development engineering experience in embedded control systems
• Preferred: minimum 2+ years' experience as a safety analyst in an automotive environment
• Prefer previous experience with Embedded Electronic Controls systems (BMS, motor control, electric motors, inverter etc.)
• Prefer experience in applying safety according to ISO 26262 standards, or secondarily IEC 61508 standard
• Prefer a good understanding of embedded Software engineering and Hardware engineering domains
• Automotive product engineering experience working in product development with OEM

• FTA
• FMEA
• Failure metrics analysis in accordance with ISO 26262 and/or Safe Failure Fraction in accordance with IEC 61508
• OBD Diagnostics
• Reliability Predictions

• Full benefits: medical, dental, vision, HSA and FSA
• 401(k) 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

• Mid-Senior level

• Full-time

• Management and Manufacturing
• IT Services and IT Consulting, Software Development, and Financial Services

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