ECU Hardware Safety Analysis Engineer

GM • Warren, MI

8h

About The Position

The Role: Safety is truly in your hands, as your passion for safe mobility will be key in ensuring the functional safety of our inhouse developed ECUs for our latest vehicle architecture. In this role you are expected to have a high level of technical proficiency to perform various ECU, sub-component and circuit level safety analysis tasks that supports various SDV ECUs, and provide mentoring to more junior engineers. This team will function in the capacity of performing the required safety analysis within an ECU design responsible organization where work products will be delivered to the System Functional Safety organization to meet the overall system safety case and safety goals of the ECU. This team will interface across various GM engineering disciplines as well as external engineering entities to obtain needed information for the required safety analysis work. The Ideal Candidate: Electronic Control Units (ECUs) used in high Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL) applications continue to be an area of growth in the global automotive market. Our team is looking for a creative and highly energetic ECU Hardware Safety Analysis Engineer who can perform ECU circuit level safety analysis work and assist in developing our internal analysis approach and procedures for inhouse electronics designed ECUs. This circuit level electronics safety analysis will be in support of the overall System Safety Case development for ECUs within the Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) electrical architecture technologies that are critical in achieving GM’s Vision of Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions, and Zero Congestion. The ideal candidate will have previous experience with circuit level safety analysis, drive innovation, facilitate effective communication, and inspire enthusiasm within the team. We expect you to demonstrate leadership qualities, actively champion change, possess keen business intuition, and strategically address systemic challenges. You should also exhibit high learning agility, the ability to navigate ambiguity and complexity, and a commitment to pushing the boundaries of innovation while challenging the status quo.

Requirements

• 5+ years engineering experience in product development with safety critical systems, ECUs or electronic circuit safety analysis.
• Bachelors of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, or another related Engineering degree.
• Electronic Circuit and/or Software design, analysis, development, validation experience.
• Deep knowledge of safety critical embedded controls with at least one automotive subsystem or experience with a complex safety system in other industries.
• Good knowledge of Semiconductor physics, structures, fundamentals, models and failure mechanisms.
• Demonstrated leadership and project management of complex technical projects.
• Ability to provide technical leadership and mentorship to diverse global teams.
• In-depth familiarity with ISO 26262 or other functional safety standards such as IEC 61508, IEC 62304, or DO-178C.

Nice To Haves

• 7+ years engineering experience in product development with safety critical systems, ECUs or electronic circuit safety analysis.
• Master’s Degree in Engineering or related field.
• Familiarity with safety analysis tools, techniques and standards: Mentor or Cadence tool suite used in electronics design Medini or Plato-e1ns or other a nalysis/documentation tool for DFMEA Medini, Isograph, Fault Tree + or other analysis tool for FMEDA / FTA Siemens SN29500, IEC 62380 or other reliability standards for FIT rate analysis Emerging safety standards such as ISO 21448 and UL 4600
• Experience working with Telematics / Connectivity ECUs.
• Knowledge of electronics sub-component mechanical design integration within ECUs as it relates to circuit implementation reliability and failure mechanisms.
• Familiarity with common safety mechanisms implemented in Automotive ECU's Machine learning, simulation methods and data acquisition.

Responsibilities

• Near term – coordinate deliverables from a 3rd Party safety analysis provider to obtain required ECU circuit level safety analysis on SDV ECUs to meet project technical and timing expectations until long term state attained.
• Long term – support process development, identification of pertinent training and building team capability to perform ECU circuit level safety analysis, hazard identification and risk mitigations using qualitative and quantitative methods on a multitude of ECUs.
• Support ECU Safety strategy development and deploy safety strategies that balance overall System Safety with feature availability & performance.
• Perform ECU circuit level safety analysis using various software analysis & documentation tools in the following areas: DFMEA (Design Failure Mode Effects Analysis) FIT (Failures In Time) FMEDA (Failure Modes, Effects and Diagnostic Analysis) FTA (Fault Tree Analysis)
• Drive ECU, sub-component and/or circuit level design modifications determined necessary from the safety analysis work performed.
• Support development of new and/or revise existing technical safety related requirements for ECU CTRS (Component Technical Requirements Specification).
• Actively lead, participate and contribute in System Safety GSSLT (Global Subsystem Leadership Team), ECU HW Change Control Board and ECU safety analysis Peer Review forums.
• Stay abreast of new technologies and safety analysis techniques.
• Domestic and/or international travel as required (minimal, 10% max).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees