Senior Functional Safety Engineer

The role

You will lead architecture development, safety assessments, risk analyses, and safety improvements for autonomous trucking technology. You will collaborate with Product and System Engineering teams to identify hazards and ensure Functional Safety and SOTIF targets are met.

What you will do

• Identify and evaluate hazards related to Functional Safety and SOTIF (ISO 26262 & ISO 21448).
• Support analysis and evaluation of Acceptance Criteria for identified SOTIF hazards.
• Perform hazard analysis and risk assessment (HARA) according to ISO 26262.
• Analyze and evaluate the Fault Tolerant Time Interval (FTTI) for identified hazards.
• Perform inductive and deductive safety analyses for systems, hardware, and software.
• Contribute to the development of the Safety Case and track Safety Performance Indicators.
• Establish alignment on safety processes and methods with internal business partners.
• Conduct and support reviews of safety artifacts.

Required qualifications

• Extensive experience with safety analyses such as HAZOP, FMEA, STPA, and FTA.
• Solid understanding of industry standards and best practices related to autonomous technologies.
• Demonstrated experience working according to ISO 26262 and ISO 21448.
• Systems-level thinking with engineering knowledge of complex physical and software systems.
• Knowledge in software engineering, networking, electrical and mechanical systems, system components, and artificial intelligence/machine learning.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering or related technical field plus 6+ years of experience OR
• Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering or related technical field plus 3+ years of experience OR
• PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering or related technical field plus 1+ years of experience.
• Occasional travel to Torc locations, government locations, etc. (10% or less).
• Requires appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in identified areas.
• Requires continuous technical education and training.

Nice to have

• Understanding of agile and software development life cycle processes.
• Excel in critical thinking to identify problems and problem-solving and analytical thinking to solve complex safety issues.
• Understanding and experience applying safety data and statistical methods to develop criteria and thresholds.

Benefits

• Corporate bonus
• Stock option plan
• Medical benefits
• Financial benefits
• Other benefits

About the company

Torc is a leader in autonomous driving since 2007 and is now a part of the Daimler family. The company focuses on developing software for automated trucks.