Sr. Functional Safety Project Engineer

Rivian•Palo Alto, CA

About The Position

Rivian is on a mission to keep the world adventurous forever. This goes for the emissions-free Electric Adventure Vehicles we build, and the curious, courageous souls we seek to attract. As a company, we constantly challenge what’s possible, never simply accepting what has always been done. We reframe old problems, seek new solutions and operate comfortably in areas that are unknown. Our backgrounds are diverse, but our team shares a love of the outdoors and a desire to protect it for future generations. A Functional Safety Integration Engineer manages and coordinates safety-critical development across hardware, software, and systems. They ensure complex systems within electric vehicles - power electronics components, software and controls—comply with safety standards like ISO 26262 or IEC 61508 by bridging safety requirements with actual project execution.

Requirements

Bachelor’s, master’s degree or PhD in Electrical, Embedded Systems or Software Engineering
Experience working with Power Electronics Systems, Embedded systems, VLSI, Electrical design Embedded Software and Controls algorithm domains.
Knowledge and Experience with FuSa Engineering in overall ISO 26262
Knowledge of communication protocols such as CAN, SPI, LIN, SENT, Flex ray
Experience with requirements management tools (e.g. JAMA, Doors, etc.), issue tracking tools (Jira, Bugzilla, etc.), SW version control tools (e.g. Git, Bitbucket, SVN, etc.)
Experience with C programming and/or model-based design using Simulink preferred
Exposure with Texas Instruments, Infineon automotive safety processors is a plus
High level Knowledge of software safety analysis, workflows effecting software FTA, FMEA, FFI, DFA, cascading and common cause analysis.
High level Knowledge of hardware safety analysis, workflows impacting hardware FMEA, FTA, FMEDA, DFA.
Ability to understand and create end-to-end traceability within necessary requirements (flow, JAMA, Lucid, Draw I/O), analysis (medini, sheets, confluence) and tracking tools (JIRA)
Experience with communication tools such as Wireshark, CANalyzer or CANape - Experience with requirements management tools (Jama), issue tracking tools (Jira), flow, SW version control tools (git)
Working within cross-functional teams - systems hardware, software, reliability, mechanical, manufacturing, and a proven record of working on multiple projects involving FuSa engineering.
Ability to work with resilience, zooming out and with out of the box, lean and agile thinking.
Strong team player with a drive to exceed expectations and meet deadlines.
Experience working within a cross-functional team
ISO 26262 Certified

Responsibilities

Ensure vehicle level safety goals, integrity ASIL levels, Hazard Analysis Risk Assessment, Functional and Technical Safety Requirements are available timely to unblock product level safety analysis and requirements development.
Develop detailed hardware and software functional-safety product level safety plans with targets and deliverables, integration, communicating cross-functional dependencies and risks.
Act as the primary bridge between functional safety leads, system, software developers, hardware designers and external vendors, suppliers for respective communication and taking product development forward.
Plan, track, document and summarize hardware and software safety test cases, DVPs and necessary co-ordination with functional safety leads, hardware and software designers, Test Engineers, Technical Program Management to bridge execution ensuring timely completeness.
Co-ordinate quantitative and qualitative Hardware/Software failure analysis (FMEA, FMEDA, systems DFMEA, FTA) impacting safety (hardware and software) and ensure timely completeness and verification milestones.
Co-ordinate resultant safety requirements and technical design discussions while ensuring the cross-functional alignment and timely integration.
Maintain and develop the safety case across projects, compliance traceability matrices, and audit records throughout the product lifecycle.
Develop, refine and maintain hardware and software FuSa engineering workflows processes across each work-product and impacting cross-functional engineering elements.
Develop strategies and deploy consistent approaches of traceability between high-level FuSa workflows/work-products with product level systems, hardware, reliability and software safety engineering work-products.
Verification & Validation (V&V): Planning of integration-level safety test cases and execution by hardware or software teams on respective setups.
Leverage AI in ways of accelerating the overall engineering and process development while ensuring consistency where necessary using tools such as (claude, cursor, glean, gemini, embedded AI tools etc.)
Co-ordinate Hardware, Software quality and regulatory advancements where necessary.