Senior Functional Safety Engineer (Hardware)
RemoteUnited States
United StatesRemoteFull TimeSenior LevelDoctorate Or Professional DegreeStartup
Full TimeSenior LevelDoctorate Or Professional DegreeStartup
Job Summary
Define the functional and technical safety concept across the system with a focus on hardware. Author technical safety concepts and requirements at the hardware level while partnering with hardware teams to understand architectural needs. Execute safety analyses including HARA, FMEA, FMEDA, and FTA, and establish test plans and automation infrastructure for verification and validation. Guide key system elements through the end-to-end safety lifecycle.
Required Qualifications
- Direct experience in delivering functional safety work products according to ISO 13849, ISO 26262, IEC 61508 or similar
- Strong foundational knowledge in safety engineering techniques such as HARA, FMEA, FMEDA, FTA, and STPA
- Experience defining and executing verification & validation in a safety context, including fault injection and HIL testing
- Familiarity with design and implementation of safety mechanisms and fault handling measures, such as TMR, watchdogs, redundancy management, and graceful degradation
- BS or advanced degree in electrical, mechanical, systems, or a related engineering field, or equivalent practical experience
- 7+ years in safety-critical hardware or systems engineering, including several focused specifically on functional safety
- Hands-on hardware background: you have designed, reviewed, brought up, debugged, or qualified electrical and electronic hardware yourself, not only assessed it from documents
- Working knowledge of functional safety standards ISO 13849, IEC 61508, IEC 62061, ISO 26262, ISO 25119, or ISO 19014 and how they apply to different systems and applications
- Strong experience with safety analysis
- Comfort with real-time and embedded systems, fail-safe and fail-operational architectures, and the failure modes of sensing and compute hardware
- Comfort working directly with hardware and test infrastructure to execute and debug safety features and tests
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with autonomous systems
- Experience with system-level functional safety
- Hands-on certification or third-party assessment work (TÜV, UL, etc.)
- Experience standing up fault injection / HIL benches
- Background in sensing and compute: cameras, lidar, GNSS, IMUs
- Familiarity with heavy construction machines such as excavators, articulated dump trucks, dozers, wheel loaders, or motor graders
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