Functional Safety Engineer (ISO 26262)

Auto Mid-level (L4 equivalent) 2-5 years

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The job description

Tech stack. ISO 26262 work products, FTA/FMEA tools (IQ-FMEA, APIS), requirements management (DOORS, Jama), HARA templates, fault injection test tools

About the role

You will join the functional safety team of an automaker ensuring that electrical and electronic systems cannot cause unreasonable risk from malfunction. The team owns safety analyses, safety cases, and assessment readiness across vehicle programs. This role matters because functional safety is both a legal obligation and a moral one: your hazard analyses and safety goals are what stand between a random hardware fault and a catastrophic outcome, and assessors, regulators, and courts will read your work. You will decompose vehicle-level safety goals into technical safety requirements allocated across hardware and software, maintaining traceability that survives audits. Your FMEDA and dependent-failure analyses will quantify diagnostic coverage and drive hardware architectural metrics to their ASIL targets. You will also coach development teams on work-product expectations, because functional safety only works when every engineer understands which of their artifacts the assessor will actually read.

What you will achieve

Deliver complete ISO 26262 work products (HARA, functional and technical safety concepts, safety analyses) for systems through ASIL D on program timing
Cut assessment findings by 50 percent through work product quality: complete traceability from safety goals to verification evidence
Own FTA, FMEA, and dependent failure analyses with quantitative hardware metrics (SPFM, LFM, PMHF) meeting ASIL targets
Drive safety culture in development teams: training engineers to write safety requirements that are verifiable, not aspirational
Ship assessment-ready safety cases that pass independent confirmation reviews without major nonconformities

What you will bring

Must-haves

2 to 5 years of experience in functional safety engineering for automotive E/E systems
Deep working knowledge of ISO 26262: all parts relevant to system, hardware, and software development
Proficiency with safety analysis methods: HARA, FTA, FMEA/FMEDA, and common cause and cascading failure analysis
Experience with requirements management tools (DOORS, Jama, or Codebeamer) and bidirectional traceability
Understanding of automotive E/E architectures and failure modes of sensors, controllers, and actuators
Ability to calculate and argue hardware architectural metrics against ASIL targets
Clear, audit-proof technical writing: your documents must convince skeptical assessors

Nice-to-haves

Experience with SOTIF (ISO 21448) for ADAS and autonomy systems
Knowledge of ISO 21434 cybersecurity engineering and its interface with safety
Familiarity with UL 4600 or other autonomy safety standards
Functional safety certification (e.g., TÜV Functional Safety Engineer)