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Role Summary
As Staff Functional Safety Engineer working in the Electric Power Conversion group, you will be responsible for performing functional safety development of power electronics components.
Responsibilities
- Perform and document safety analysis on the embedded software to address safety anomalies.
- Conduct, review, and document SW-FTA, SW-FMEA, Freedom from interference (FFI), common cause/cascading failure (CCA/CFA) and dependent failure analysis (DFA) for systems and embedded software (including controls design).
- Develop and document systems & software safety concepts, software safety requirements to provide software safety design recommendations.
- Support software safety analysis to come up with software architecture design.
- Develop systems/software architecture at a system level in a safety critical path with multiple ECU interaction.
- Support hardware safety analysis (FTA, FMEDA) and hardware safety requirements development.
- Develop upstream and downstream traceability between software, systems technical safety requirements and relevant test cases in traceability tool.
- Define and prioritize test details/case for software safety requirements including fault injection development.
- Support the systems, and software test team in executing test cases with troubleshooting abilities.
- Perform safety impact analyses on new projects or architectures.
- Support vehicle functional safety team in development of technical safety requirements and hazard analysis risk assessment.
- Develop software safety analysis and requirements for microcontrollers/ICs.
- Maintenance of software safety requirements and architecture with implementation agreements.
Qualifications
- MS or BS degree in Electrical or Embedded Engineering
- Systems & embedded software design experience with functional safety engineering background.
- 5+ Years of experience in systems or embedded software and controls with a functional safety engineering background in ISO 26262 part – 4, 5, 6 and 8.
- Understanding of the systems design architecture of Low Voltage or High Voltage electronics design applications.
- Understanding of the embedded software design/architecture for low Voltage or High Voltage Electronic design applications.
- Understanding of the embedded software design timelines and process flow.
- Knowledge of failure modes and failure effects of embedded software and controls design with prior experience in performing software FTA, FMEA, FFI, DFA, cascading and common cause analysis.
- Ability to understand and create traceability in JAMA or similar requirements management tool.
- 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.
- Preferred:
- Understanding of the systems/embedded software, controls design architecture of DC-AC Inverters, DC-DC Converters, AC-DC Power Electronics applications.
- Tools expertise with Medini, Plato or similar strongly preferred.
- Understanding of MATLAB (model-based design), C, C++
- Familiarity with E-Gas Level—1/2/3 Concept
- ISO 26262 Certified
Pay Disclosure
Salary Range/Hourly Rate for Southern California Based Applicants: $171,100 - $213,900 (actual compensation will be determined based on experience, location, and other factors permitted by law).
Salary Range/Hourly Rate for Northern California Based Applicants: $186,000 - $232,500 (actual compensation will be determined based on experience, location, and other factors permitted by law).
Salary Range/Hourly Rate for Michigan Based Applicants: $156,200 - $195,300 (actual compensation will be determined based on experience, location, and other factors permitted by law).
Benefits Summary: Rivian provides robust medical/Rx, dental and vision insurance packages for full-time employees, their spouse or domestic partner, and children up to age 26. Coverage is effective on the first day of employment, and Rivian covers most of the premiums.
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