Senior Functional Safety Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Senior Functional Safety Engineer is a member of a project team. He/she is responsible for development of the PO Lighting products in conformance to applicable standards and methodologies. He/she is responsible to help project team to reach project goal - supply customer with robust, validated, and reliable product in requested time, quality and budget.

 

• Ensuring compliance with the requirements in the area of Functional Safety throughout the complete product development cycle.
• Support the development team in meeting the requirements of ISO 26262
• Preparation of a product safety plan and safety case at the project level
• Capable of performing Functional Safety analyses (e.g. Fault Tree Analysis, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis, Dependent Failure Analysis, Random Hardware Failure Metrics)
• Deriving of safety concept on functional and technical level and corresponding safety requirements.
• Guide the development teams along the integration of the safety concept into the product architecture (System, Software and Hardware level).
• Covering the assessment of Functional Safety on projects, supporting the team in defining and implementing corrective measures
• Close cooperation with the development teams and the overall project management.
• Supports and participates in meetings at the customer's development center, supports pilot sample preparation, product manufacturing activities, and SOP claims
• Support to the innovation team during development of new product concepts by development of new safety concepts ensuring functional safety compliance.

Independent preparation of customer documentation and discussion of the contents with the customer

EDUCATION REQUIREMENT(S):

• Successfully completed university degree in the field of computer science, electrical engineering, mechatronics or comparable field of study

EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENT(S):

• More than 5 years of Professional experience in the field of safety critical automotive embedded systems development
• Experience in the application of industry standards as well as improvement activities (e.g. ISO26262, AUTOSAR, ASPICE, ,)
• Experience with safety analyses methods
• Good understanding of electronics (hardware and software)
• Knowledge of common automotive SW development methodologies and tooling and AUTOSAR beneficial
• High level of judgement and decision-making ability, assertiveness and communication skills as well as the ability to work under pressure; in addition, business fluent language skills in English, both written and spoken
• Independent way of working for functional safety activities already established in the organization and active deriving and proposing of new ways to manage functional safety activities which are new and not established in the organization.
• Functional safety knowledge multiplication within the product development and cross functional supporting teams as well as within the safety organization itself.