Sr. Staff Functional Safety Engineers

The role

This person will derive hazard and risk assessments and functional safety requirements for a vehicle platform. They will oversee integration validation and testing and supervise engineers.

What you will do

• Work with systems engineering to understand expected features and functions specific to a vehicle program
• Derive detailed Hazard and Risk Assessment (HARA) and Functional Safety Requirements (FSR’s) for a vehicle platform
• Engage with core engineering functional safety engineers to drive technical content for TSR’s, hardware requirements, and software requirements
• Derive ASIL metrics
• Transition from high level safety implementation to low level architecture
• Oversee integration validation and testing activities between component hardware and software
• Lead Integration validation and testing at the vehicle level for functional safety requirements
• Maintain a single source Safety Plan tracking the overall safety work
• Supervise engineers

Required qualifications

• Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Electrical/Electronic Engineering or a closely related field and 2 years of experience in the automotive industry
• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Electrical/Electronic Engineering or a closely related field and 5 years of experience in the automotive industry
• Experience working with OEM or Tier 1 within functional safety
• Experience with ISO 26262 within an OEM or Tier 1
• Experience working within a cross-functional team leading indirect reports
• Experience with Vehicle system functionality and electro/mechanical control strategy

Benefits

• competitive base salary
• annual company performance bonus program
• equity in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
• health coverage
• retirement savings
• time off
• family planning programs

About the company

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is a joint venture between two industry leaders addressing the challenges of electric vehicles through technology.