Senior System Safety Engineer - Braking

Job Description

Work Arrangement

This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Milford, MI three times per week or other frequency dictated by the business.

Company Vehicle: Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review, you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program, through which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate. Note: program participants are required to purchase/lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless one of a limited number of exceptions applies.

The Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior System Safety Engineer to lead safety analysis and risk mitigation efforts for braking systems within our chassis system engineering and system safety team. This role is critical to ensuring the safe operation of advanced braking technologies across a range of vehicle platforms, including conventional, hybrid, and electric architectures.

What You’ll Do (Responsibilities)

• Lead system safety activities for braking systems in accordance with ISO 26262 and other relevant safety standards

• Develop and maintain safety concepts, hazard analysis, and risk assessments (HARA) and System safety work products

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including hardware, software, controls, and validation to ensure safety goals are met with consistent and sufficient safety strategy implementation

• Establish safety requirements traceability to design and validation activities,
  partnering with engineering teams though the product development life cycle

• Support safety case development and documentation for internal and external stakeholders to facilitate timely delivery of safety critical system content

• Ensure functional reliability, regulatory compliance, necessary fault coverage, diagnostics, and functional availability for new braking systems

• Serve as the primary point of contact for System Safety status and issue resolution related to braking systems, providing regular updates and strategic insights and system safety process guidance to program teams and leadership

• Lead and participate in design reviews, FMEA sessions, and safety audits

• Mentor and develop system safety engineers and contribute to continuous improvement of safety processes

• Mentor & develop internal and external organizational partners (including
  Global teams) on safety critical system and process-specific knowledge

• Stay abreast of new technology and safety analysis techniques

Relocation

This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field

• Minimum 7 years of experience in automotive system safety engineering, with a focus on braking or chassis systems or related complex systems

• Deep understanding of ISO 26262 and functional safety lifecycle

• Good understanding of Embedded controls and electronics

• Depth and experience in Vehicle Dynamics

• Experience with safety analysis tools (e.g., Medini, APIS IQ-FMEA, Fault Tree Analysis)

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Excellent communication and documentation abilities

• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time, domestic

• This position requires the ability to legally operate a motor vehicle on a regular basis and successfully complete a Motor Vehicle Report review

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Aerospace, Computer Science, or related field

• Experience with model-based systems engineering (MBSE)

• Prior experience working with Vehicle dynamics, ADAS, or autonomous vehicle systems

• Professional certifications in functional safety (e.g., TÜV Functional Safety Engineer)

Sponsorship

GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP NOW OR IN THE FUTURE. THIS INCLUDES DIRECT COMPANY SPONSORSHIP, ENTRY OF GM AS THE IMMIGRATION EMPLOYER OF RECORD ON A GOVERNMENT FORM, AND ANY WORK AUTHORIZATION REQUIRING A WRITTEN SUBMISSION OR OTHER IMMIGRATION SUPPORT FROM THE COMPANY (e.g., H-1B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc.)

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