Automotive Functional Safety Manager

We have a position for an Automotive Functional Safety Manager.
LER TechForce is an industry leader in embedded controls, software, functional safety, and engineering talent. For over 20 years LER has been working with customers across North America to meet their engineering resource challenges. Learn more about us (3) LER TechForce: Life | LinkedIn
Develop the Functional Safety organization for EV components (battery, converter, motor control etc.) Requirements development and implementation of ISO26262 work products
Conducts standard safety analyses, by applying functional safety standards and principles to provide feedback and guidance to the engineering design teams for systems, hardware, and software on safety findings and to recommended design changes that improve automotive embedded safety systems and ensure their compliance to safety goals
Lead the safety plan and enable the project team through all phases of safety engineering: requirements elicitation, item definitions, preliminary hazard analysis and risk assessment, functional safety concept, technical safety concept, item integration, safety validation.
Perform technical analysis and provide results to support the development of the safety concept and artifacts of the safety case: hazard and risk assessment, hazard metric translation, define safety goals and criteria, ASIL decomposition, FMEA and FTA analysis
Consult and collaborate with the software design teams to achieve effective technical solutions and ensure that all safety requirements are robust at the systems level, hardware interface level and software architectural levels
Analyzes/defines the functional safety requirements within the project based on the customer requirements. Understands/analyzes the requirements from the end user perspective while considering constraints and safety standards as the main objective
Carries out the design analysis to support the development of safety case arguments
Creates/updates the hazard and risk analyses, safety plan, functional and technical safety concept
Specifies safety requirements and safety concepts for system/components
Supports the definition/specification of safety requirements for hardware and software architectures
Judges if system design/architecture can fulfill requirements, considering hardware-software components, interfaces, functional and environmental dependencies, using basic understanding of computer/vehicle networks, hardware, and software design
Leads/supports Safety Assessment Reviews
Leads/performs safety analysis using standard deductive (FMEA, FMEDA...) and inductive (H&R, FTA) methods, the outcomes of these analyses will inform to the system design/architecture responsible
Supports the safety verification & validation activities
Leads/participates in safety review meetings
Actively participates in product development, including planning and monitoring of safety plans and their validation testing.
. Bachelors in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Control Engineering, Physics or related if combined with development engineering experience in embedded control systems.
Preferred candidate possesses a minimum of 2+ years experience as a safety analyst in an automotive environment.
Prefer experience in applying safety according to ISO Client 26262 standards, or secondly IEC 61508 standard.
Prefer a good understanding of embedded Software engineering and Hardware engineering domains.
Automotive product engineering experience working in product development with OEM.
Failure metrics analysis in accordance with ISO Client-26262 and/or Safe Failure Fraction in accordance with IEC-61508.
Full benefits: medical, dental, vision, HSA and FSA
~401K with a match and immediate vesting
~ Short-term & Long-term disability, life insurance and other optional benefits
~ Employee Assistance Program
~ Ongoing professional development opportunities including Technical Training and Leadership Development
~ The opportunity to work on industry leading projects