Functional Safety V & V Senior Engineer

Ford • Dearborn, MI

23h • Hybrid

About The Position

This role involves assisting teams in developing and executing functional safety V&V strategies and their work products to create a comprehensive Safety Case. The engineer will collaborate with Ford Connected Vehicle Software and Product Data Integrity, and supplier engineering teams to identify and address gaps in safety-related processes and work products, recommending best practices. A key responsibility is developing a FuSa V&V capability maturity plan in conjunction with engineering stakeholders. The position reports to the Director of the Office of Functional Safety Assurance (OFSA). There are two distinct roles within this posting: Role 1 focuses on AI tools and software, while Role 2 concentrates on verification and validation plans, methods, tools, and results.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience in embedded automotive safety software verification.
• Demonstrable deep understanding of ISO-26262 Part 6 e.g. software requirements analysis, decomposition, allocation, verification. Software architectural design, safety analysis, safety mechanism design and implementation, software unit test, integration and verification, FFI, DFA, software design practices to ensure safety, software structural design and verification, the inter-relationship between software, hardware and systems engineering as it relates to the safety lifecycle.
• Experience with tools commonly used in safety software test including requirements analysis, IDEs, static code analysis, code complexity metrics, code and requirement coverage, MISRA and Safe C rules checkers, debuggers, configuration management, change control, CI/CD pipelines, regression test, SIL, HIL, MIL.
• Model based software development.
• Development of software test strategies including fault injection.
• Working knowledge of ISO-26262 Part 3,4 Concept and Systems Engineering process, tools, methods, including HARA, HAZOP, Functional Safety Concept.
• Able to understand the translation of systems work products into software.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively engage with cross-functional teams, external partners, and stakeholders to drive successful feature system development projects.
• Leadership abilities, with a track record of initiative and problem solving, delivering high-quality software that meets safety, security, and performance objectives.
• Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in a technical or Management field to broaden scope of activities
• FuSa Professional Accreditation: UL, TUV, Exida or equivalent.
• Additional experience in Systems, Hardware development for Safety applications in a complementary fashion
• Experience with software related standards development
• Demonstrated ability to comprehend end-to-end systems of systems, apply systemic thinking, critical thinking, and strategic reasoning to identify opportunities, rapidly understand complex concerns, provide alternative solutions, and drive strategy from concept through to production
• Comfort with ambiguity, with a demonstrated ability to structure an approach to complex problems and drive clarity on solutions
• Understand and drive innovation and change in processes, engineering excellence, quality, and efficiency
• A drive for a system approach to design and development, coupled with a desire and curiosity to strive for exceptional delivery execution and continuous improvement

Responsibilities

• Assist teams in the development and execution of functional safety V&V strategies and their work products to develop a comprehensive Safety Case.
• Work with Ford Connected Vehicle Software and Product Data Integrity, and supplier engineering teams to identify safety related process and work product gaps and recommend best practice solutions.
• Develop a FuSa V&V capability maturity plan working with engineering stakeholders.
• Apply, demonstrate and champion best in class methods, tools, practices to ensure embedded software achieves safety.
• Lead the development of the FuSa Software Health Dashboard for the enterprise, including its metrics and criteria for maturity.
• Develop AI enhanced tracking and analytic tools to determine status and priority actions.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including product engineering, program management, validation and verification, software, hardware, design, integration, quality, and architecture to drive maturity of enterprise FuSa Health metrics.
• Apply system engineering, risk analysis, trouble shooting and root cause analysis methods to find software related issues and close the loop to process, methods and tools gaps.
• Align and exploit synergies with SQA where this helps drive FuSa maturity.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to optimize software development and deployment processes, tools, and methodologies, enhancing effectiveness.
• Provide consistent health status, insights, risks and opportunities to executive leadership and stakeholders.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior