Functional Safety Engineer
About The Position
ZF North America Inc. has job openings for the position of Functional Safety Engineer based out of its location in Northville, MI. The role involves creating a safety plan, ensuring activities are carried out according to plan, conducting comprehensive independent analyses and reviews, evaluating changes, developing the safety concept, defining and documenting functional safety requirements, supporting interpretation of requirements, deriving and documenting safety requirements, acting as an expert functional safety consultant, supporting development initiatives, and planning and issuing road and safety approvals. A hybrid work schedule is available, with up to 10% domestic and/or international travel to test facilities for troubleshooting.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or closely related field
- 1 year of experience in embedded software design or test within an automotive engineering environment
- Demonstrated experience with analyzing electrical and mechanical systems of automotive powertrain products in relation to functional safety.
- Demonstrated experience with tools needed for development and functional safety activities; including version control, network measurement, problem and requirements management tools.
- Demonstrated experience with safety analyses including HARA, FMEA, and FTA
- Demonstrated experience with embedded hardware and software design and architecture of electronic products including engine control module or transmission control module
- Demonstrated experience with ISO26262
- Demonstrated experience with Ansys Medini, Fulcrums, GoFormz or SciSure
- Demonstrated experience with data analysis tools including vSginalyzer and MDA
- Demonstrated experience with automotive powertrain
- Demonstrated experience analyzing electrical, hydraulic and mechanical components
- Demonstrated experience analyzing data containing multiple related time series signals
- Demonstrated experience with automotive or software development processing, including include ASPICE or SDL
- Demonstrated experience with requirements management including elicitation, analysis and documentation
- Demonstrated experience identifying risks and limitations of source code and functions in embedded systems related to functional safety.
Responsibilities
- Create a safety plan which identifies and plans all required activities, tasks, and resources for the various development phases of the project.
- Ensure activities are carried out according to plan and notify project management of any deviations.
- Conduct comprehensive independent analyses and reviews, including in-vehicle evaluation as required, as part of the functional safety process in support of system and software development.
- Evaluate changes and determine required actions as applicable.
- Develop the safety concept (functional and technical).
- Define and document functional safety requirements for based on performed analyses.
- Support interpretation of requirements for internal and external teams as required.
- Derive and document safety requirements from new and complex problems; and ensure verification and validation.
- Act as an expert functional safety consultant for project teams and provide direction as needed.
- Support safety discussions with internal and external teams.
- Support development initiatives including change analysis and implementation.
- Plan and issue road and safety approvals for development and production to meet project milestones.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
