Senior Functional Safety Engineer (Hardware)
Core
Define functional and technical safety concepts for autonomous heavy construction machinery, focusing on hardware safety lifecycle, analysis, and verification.
Role type
Senior IC functional safety engineer (hardware)
Builds
Autonomous construction systems (excavators, dump trucks, etc.)
Domain
Autonomous vehicles + Construction equipment
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Functional safety standards (ISO 13849, ISO 26262, IEC 61508), Safety analysis techniques (HARA, FMEA, FMEDA, FTA, STPA), Verification & validation (fault injection, HIL testing), Hardware design & debugging, Safety mechanisms (TMR, watchdogs, redundancy, graceful degradation)
Preferred skills
Autonomous systems experience, System-level functional safety, Third-party certification (TÜV, UL), Fault injection/HIL bench setup, Sensing/compute background (cameras, lidar, GNSS, IMUs), Heavy construction machine familiarity
Technologies
ISO 13849, ISO 26262, IEC 61508, IEC 62061, ISO 25119, ISO 19014, HARA, FMEA, FMEDA, FTA, STPA, TMR, Watchdogs, HIL, Fault injection
Responsibilities
Define functional safety concept for the system, Author technical safety concepts at the HW level, Partner with HW team on architectural requirements, Author HW safety requirements and drive design of safety mechanisms, Establish test plans for verification and validation, Define test infrastructure and automation, Execute safety analysis (HARA, FMEA, FMEDA, FTA)
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
