Senior Program Manager (Vehicle Functional Safety)

The role

The Functional Safety Program Manager manages functional safety activities for vehicle system and software development projects based on ISO 26262. This role leads the entire functional safety lifecycle from planning to risk analysis, requirements management, and verification response.

What you will do

• Establish and manage the execution of functional safety plans for projects.
• Define safety activities, personnel, schedules, and completion criteria based on ISO 26262 and customer requirements.
• Manage the schedule for creating, reviewing, and approving safety deliverables.
• Plan analysis activities like FMEA and DFA in collaboration with SW and verification organizations.
• Check traceability from safety goals to requirements, design, and verification results.
• Manage impact assessments for safety-related changes and anomalies.
• Lead schedules and evidence management for confirmation reviews, functional safety audits, and assessments.
• Coordinate review and assessment systems to meet required independence.
• Manage roles, safety activities, deliverables, and acceptance criteria through Development Interface Agreements (DIA).
• Report unresolved safety issues and information required for release decisions to project decision-makers.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in functional safety development or management in automotive electronics, ADAS, or autonomous driving fields.
• Understanding of the ISO 26262 safety lifecycle and the relationship between safety goals, requirements, analysis, and verification activities.
• Experience establishing Safety Plans or managing schedules and completion status of functional safety activities/deliverables in actual development projects.
• Experience managing traceability of safety requirements, change impacts, or unresolved safety issues.
• Experience coordinating functional safety technical issues and response plans with development/verification organizations and customers/partners.

Nice to have

• Experience as a functional safety manager or project safety officer in mass production projects.
• Experience in functional safety audit/assessment response, Safety Case construction, or safety-perspective release readiness review.
• Experience directly performing or reviewing safety analyses such as FMEA and DFA.
• Experience in DIA establishment between OEM and partners or managing safety activities in distributed development projects.
• Experience applying ISO 21448 (SOTIF) or safety assurance activities for ADAS/autonomous driving systems.
• ISO 26262 professional certification, Automotive SPICE based development experience, or ALM (Codebeamer) usage experience.

Before you apply

• Interview process includes document screening, 1st interview (video, approx. 1 hour), 2nd interview (in-person or video, approx. 3 hours), and salary negotiation.
• A 3-month probationary period may apply.
• Reference checks may be conducted after the interview process with the candidate's consent.

About the company

42dot develops next-generation vehicle software to lead the Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) era.