Functional Safety Engineer

Job Title: Functional Safety Engineer

Location:  Canton, MI / Hybrid

As part of the software development team, the associate will apply expertise in embedded system development to electronics projects. The ideal candidate must have strong embedded system design skills and functional safety based on ISO 26262.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the functional safety engineering function for all electronics programs
• Interface with customer to collect and clarify functional safety requirements. Track requirements through design, coding, unit testing, integration testing, validation and release phases
• Interface with internal groups such as system, electrical, mechanical, validation, manufacturing, project leaders, program managers and external groups such as suppliers
• Be creative in developing optimized system and software architectures that meets the safety goals from the customer
• Review safety solutions from suppliers and apply them to architecture designs
• Provide effort estimates and support quotation activities
• Ensure functional safety elements are included in DFMEA and in manufacturing test specifications
• Act as mentor to other engineers
• Participate in improvement of personal, departmental, and technological capabilities
• Support product builds, launches and investigation of functional safety issues
• Be motivated and have strong problem-solving skills
• Provides, exchanges, or present technical information from multiple data sources
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Key Must Have’s:

• BS degree in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering. Master’s degree is a plus
• 8+ years of experience in automotive or equivalent embedded systems
• 5+ years of experience in automotive functional safety ISO 26262
• Experience in automotive serial communication protocols such as CAN & LIN
• Experience in different microcontrollers and peripherals such as SPI, GPIO, PWM, etc.
• Software Quality and Process Improvement standards such as CMMI or Automotive SPICE
• Experience in C programming language for embedded systems
• Model-Based development tools & AUTOSAR design methodology
• Automotive Cybersecurity
• High speed data networks such as Ethernet
• Power Electronics including HV electronics