Senior Functional Safety Engineer

Torc Robotics•Ann Arbor, MI

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Join our Product Engineering Team, where we work at the forefront of autonomous trucking safety. Our team collaborates across functional safety, systems engineering, and design teams to ensure that Functional Safety and SOTIF targets are met, reducing functional insufficiencies and ensuring a robust autonomous vehicle platform. We are seeking a Senior Systems Engineer who is deeply experienced with Functional Safety and familiar with SOTIF and passionate about safety-critical systems, risk assessment, and verification & validation strategies. In this role, you will lead architecture development, safety assessments, risk analyses, and safety improvements, helping shape the future of autonomous trucking technology.

Requirements

Degree(s) in Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field with relevant experience; Master of Science degree with 3+ years of experience or a Bachelor of Science degree and 6+ years of experience
Extensive experience with safety analyses such as HAZOP, FMEA, STPA, and FTA.
Solid understanding of industry standards and best practices related to autonomous technologies.
Demonstrated experience working according to key industry standards such as Functional Safety (ISO 26262) and Safety Of The Intended Functionality (ISO 21448).
Systems-level thinking, with underlying engineering knowledge of the complex physical and software systems used in autonomy technologies.
Knowledge in the following disciplines: software engineering, networking, electrical and mechanical systems, system components, and artificial intelligence/machine learning.

Nice To Haves

Understanding of agile and software development life cycle processes.
Excel in critical thinking to identify problems and problem-solving and analytical thinking to solve complex safety issues.
Understanding and experience applying safety data and statistical methods to develop criteria and thresholds.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with the Product and System Engineering teams to identify and evaluate hazards related to Functional Safety and Safety Of The Intended Functionality (ISO 26262 & ISO 21448).
Support analysis and evaluation of Acceptance Criteria for identified SOTIF hazards.
Collaborate with the Product and System Engineering teams to perform the hazard analysis and risk assessment (HARA) according to ISO 26262.
Analyze and evaluate the Fault Tolerant Time Interval (FTTI) for identified hazards.
Perform inductive and deductive safety analyses for system, hardware, and software.
Contribute to the development of the Safety Case, including definition and tracking of Safety Performance Indicators.
Work with internal business partners such as the Systems Engineering team to establish alignment on safety processes and methods.
Conduct and support reviews of safety artifacts applying appropriate level of rigor to review process.