Senior Functional Safety Engineer

Title: Software Functional Safety Engineer

Location: Normal, IL

Duration: 06+ months (Contract)

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

• Develop SW-FTA, SW-FMEA, Freedom from interference (FFI), common cause/cascading failure (CCA/CFA) and dependent failure analysis (DFA) for embedded software including low level drivers and power electronics controls design.
• Develop software safety concepts, software safety requirements, software safety architecture to provide software safety design recommendations including driving reviews with the design team.
• Develop software safety analysis, concepts and requirements for SoCs, microcontrollers/ICs. Develop safety measures (e.g. Plausibility check, Memory protection, Program flow monitoring, E2E protection) in application software and/or platform software
• Develop Design Verification Plan (DVP) for relevant software safety requirements including fault injections.
• Experience with requirements management tools (e.g. JAMA, Doors, etc.), issue tracking tools (Jira, Bugzilla, etc.), SW version control tools (e.g. Git, Bitbucket, SVN, etc.). Experience with C programming and/or model-based design using Simulink
• Knowledge and understanding of the systems and software design architecture of Low Voltage or Power Electronics design applications.

Core responsibilities for this role are:

• Perform software safety analysis of the embedded software to address safety anomalies.
• Develop SW-FTA, SW-FMEA, Freedom from interference (FFI), common cause/cascading failure (CCA/CFA) and dependent failure analysis (DFA) for embedded software including low level drivers and power electronics controls design.
• Develop software safety concepts, software safety requirements, software safety architecture to provide software safety design recommendations including driving reviews with the design team.
• Develop software safety analysis, concepts and requirements for SoCs, microcontrollers/ICs.
• Develop safety measures (e.g. Plausibility check, Memory protection, Program flow monitoring, E2E protection) in application software and/or platform software
• Develop software architecture in safety critical path for different subsystems.
• Support (but not develop) hardware safety analysis (FTA, FMEDA) and hardware safety requirements development.
• Develop traceability between software, technical safety requirements, relevant test cases and work-products in traceability tool.
• Develop Design Verification Plan (DVP) for relevant software safety requirements including fault injections.
• Support the software test team in executing test cases with troubleshooting abilities.
• Support vehicle functional safety team in development of technical safety requirements and hazard analysis risk assessment.
• Maintenance of software safety requirements and architecture with implementation agreements.
• Support defining programming and coding guidelines for the software development teams
• Support tool classification and qualification across Client s software toolsets

Qualifications

• MS or BS degree or PhD in Electrical, Embedded or Software Engineering
• Experience with embedded systems
• 5+ Years of experience developing embedded software and controls with a functional safety engineering background in ISO 26262 part 3, 4, 6 and 8.
• Knowledge of communication protocols such as CAN, SPI and LIN
• Experience with requirements management tools (e.g. JAMA, Doors, etc.), issue tracking tools (Jira, Bugzilla, etc.), SW version control tools (e.g. Git, Bitbucket, SVN, etc.)
• Experience with C programming and/or model-based design using Simulink.
• Knowledge and understanding of the systems and software design architecture of Power Electronics design applications.
• Additional experience working on Texas Instruments, Infineon automotive safety processors is a plus
• Knowledge of failure modes and failure effects of embedded software and controls design with prior experience in performing software FTA, FMEA, FFI, DFA, cascading and common cause analysis.
• Experience/proficiency with embedded debugging tools such as PLS/ UAD or similar - Experience/proficiency with communication tools such as Wireshark, CANalyzer or CANape - Experience with requirements management tools (Jama), issue tracking tools (Jira), SW version control tools (git)
• 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