Software Safety Manager

Stellantis • Auburn Hills, MI

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About The Position

Stellantis is a global automaker and mobility provider with a diverse portfolio of automotive brands and operations in nearly 30 countries. Its software group is developing a software platform intended for deployment across future Stellantis vehicles. The Software Architecture and Safety team is seeking an experienced Software Safety Manager to lead software functional safety across the development lifecycle.

The role governs compliance with ISO 26262, establishes software safety strategy and technical direction, and maintains the integrity of software safety requirements and architecture. It provides technical authority for safety analyses and engineering decisions, defines verification and validation strategies, and oversees the readiness and traceability of software safety work products. The manager also serves as a senior safety authority across engineering and management, coordinating internal teams, suppliers, and assessors and supporting evidence-based release decisions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Embedded Systems, or a related discipline.
• A minimum of 8 years of overall related experience.
• Significant experience in automotive embedded software functional safety, including development of ASIL B to ASIL D systems.
• In-depth knowledge of ISO 26262.
• Strong expertise in safety planning, safety lifecycle tailoring, safety cases, confirmation measures, and ASIL decomposition.
• Proven experience defining software safety requirements, safety mechanisms, fault management, diagnostics, and degraded-mode strategies.
• Strong knowledge of AUTOSAR Classic and/or Adaptive, including RTE, BSW, operating systems, communication, and diagnostic services.
• Practical expertise in software safety analyses, including FMEA, FTA, dependent failure, and failure-propagation analyses.
• Strong knowledge of safety-oriented software verification, including static analysis, fault injection, testing, and structural coverage.
• Experience with embedded C/C++, model-based development or generated code, including MISRA C/C++ coding practices.
• Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership, challenge safety arguments, influence architecture decisions, and communicate effectively internationally.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with tool and software qualification, proven-in-use arguments, and configuration, change, and anomaly management processes.
• Proficiency with engineering lifecycle and traceability tools such as DOORS, Polarion, Jama, Git, and Jira.
• Experience collaborating with automotive OEMs, Tier-1 suppliers, independent assessors, and globally distributed development organizations.
• Recognized expertise and technical leadership in software functional safety, including experience mentoring engineers and driving engineering excellence.

Responsibilities

• Lead and govern software functional safety throughout the development lifecycle, ensuring ISO 26262 compliance, appropriate tailoring, ASIL-dependent rigor, and consistent safety principles across software platforms and products.
• Own software safety strategy and technical direction, including safety plans, responsibilities, milestones, work products, verification and confirmation measures, acceptance criteria, and evidence for safety approval.
• Drive the definition and integrity of software safety requirements and architecture, including decomposition, allocation, traceability, safety mechanisms, fault reactions, degraded modes, partitioning, freedom from interference, and interface assumptions.
• Provide technical authority for software safety analyses and engineering decisions, including FMEA, FTA, dependent failure analysis, ASIL decomposition, diagnostic coverage, reuse justification, third-party software assessment, and tool qualification strategies.
• Define and oversee ASIL-appropriate verification and validation strategies, including reviews, static analysis, coding compliance, unit and integration testing, robustness, fault injection, structural coverage, and independence requirements.
• Ensure compliance, traceability, and readiness of software work products, including requirements, architecture, implementation evidence, verification results, anomalies, deviations, assumptions, residual risks, safety manuals, and software contributions to the safety case.
• Act as the senior software safety authority across engineering and management; coordinate system, hardware, software, cybersecurity, quality, suppliers, and assessors; support audits and assessments; and provide evidence-based recommendations for release decisions.

What This Job Offers

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