Functional Safety Engineer

We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life‑saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.

As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.

Hybrid: 3-4 days in the office

As a Functional Safety Engineer in Advanced Hardware Engineering (AHE), you will support Systems and functional safety teams by performing Failure Mode Effects Analysis on system/sub‑system level architecture and delve deep into board/component level diagnostics. You will work closely with systems engineers, design engineers to fully understand requirements and the capability of our hardware and provide evidence of functionality and diagnostic coverage via verification & validation.

In addition, you will be responsible for developing & reviewing Test plans for verification of functional & Fault Injection tests for advanced compute and sensor hardware.

• Lead and participate in quantitative and qualitative functional safety activities that lead to the development of Failure Mode Effects & Diagnostic Analysis
• Read vendor provided documentation for components and boards to identify diagnostic capabilities.
• Work with firmware engineers to enable diagnostics and V&V team to confirm the working of diagnostics as intended.
• Work closely with the Test Team and Test Infrastructure team to guide the V&V efforts and improve diagnostics verification.
• Develop new requirements to improve diagnostic coverage of the HW working closely with EE & FW teams.
• Perform detailed analysis of Safety manuals provided by Vendors for complex SOC’s microprocessors.
• Develop requirements for safety‑critical Hardware to perform Fault injection Testing to comply with ISO 26262:2018.

• B.S. or higher degree in Electrical, Aerospace, Automotive, or Robotics Engineering
• Familiarity with ISO 26262 or other safety standards.
• 6+ years of work experience performing Board Level FMEDA and understanding SOC FMEDA.
• Collaborative team player with strong written and in‑person communication skills.

• Automotive Hardware Design & Validation experience.
• Certification in ISO 26262 (CFSE, CFSP).
• Familiarity with Reliability Standards – SN29500, IEC
  61508.
• Failure mode distribution standards such as FIDES, FMD, etc.
• Hardware validation & board bring‑up experience within standards such as ISO‑26262, DO‑178C, DO‑254, IEC 61508.
• $115,000–125,000 (actual salary offered depends on location, qualifications, etc.).

ALTEN Technology is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our Policy is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual's age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status.

Compliance Notice: Alten USA is a federal contractor subject to the requirements of the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) and Executive Order 11246. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Drug Screening Requirement: As a federal contractor, Alten USA maintains a drug‑free workplace. All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre‑employment drug screening as a condition of hire.