Sr. Staff Functional Safety Engineer

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Perform software safety analysis of the embedded software to address safety anomalies.
• Develop SW-FTA, SW-FMEA, Freedom from interference (FFI), common cause/cascading failure (CCA/CFA), and dependent failure analysis (DFA) for embedded software including low level drivers, base and power electronics application software with controls knowledge.
• Develop software safety concepts, software safety requirements, and software safety architecture including driving safety implementation within the software design team.
• Develop software safety analysis, concepts, and requirements for SoCs, microcontrollers/ICs.
• Develop safety measures such as plausibility check, memory protection, program flow monitoring, E2E protection, MCU internal and external watchdogs, and Safety Management Unit in application and platform software.
• Develop software architecture in safety critical paths for different subsystems, including interfacing requirements with vehicle controllers.
• Support hardware safety analysis (FTA, FMEDA) and hardware safety requirements development.
• Develop traceability between software, technical safety requirements, relevant test cases, and work-products in traceability tools.
• Develop Design Verification Plan (DVP) for relevant software safety requirements including fault injections across test setups (SIL/HIL/Dyno/Test Bench or Vehicle level).
• Support the software test team in executing test cases with troubleshooting abilities on test setups.
• Support vehicle functional safety team in development of technical safety requirements and hazard analysis risk assessment.
• Analyze and break vehicle level TSRs into detailed software safety requirements.
• Support defining programming and coding guidelines for the software development teams.
• Support tool classification and qualification across Rivian's software toolsets.

Requirements

• MS or BS degree or PhD in Electrical, Embedded or Software Engineering.
• Experience with embedded systems, VLSI.
• In-depth understanding of systems and software design architecture for Power Electronics applications.
• 5+ Years of experience developing (and implementing) embedded software and controls with a functional safety engineering background in ISO 26262 parts 4, 5, 8 with an emphasis in 6.
• Knowledge of communication protocols such as CAN, SPI and LIN.
• Experience with requirements management tools (e.g., JAMA, Doors), issue tracking tools (Jira, Bugzilla), SW version control tools (Git, Bitbucket, SVN).
• Experience with C programming and/or model-based design using Simulink.
• Experience/proficiency with embedded debugging tools such as PLS/UAD or similar.
• Experience/proficiency with communication tools such as Wireshark, CANalyzer or CANape.
• Ability to work with resilience, zooming out, and with out-of-the-box thinking.
• Strong team player with a drive to exceed expectations and meet deadlines.
• Experience working within a cross-functional team.

Nice to Have

• Tools expertise with Medini, Plato or similar.
• Familiarity with E-Gas Level 1/2/3 Concept.
• ISO 26262 Certified.
• Free-RTOS safety qualification prior experience, BareMetal development experience.
• Additional experience working on Texas Instruments, Infineon automotive safety processors.

Qualifications

• MS or BS degree or PhD in Electrical, Embedded or Software Engineering.