Sr. Staff Functional Safety Engineers
About The Position
Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is a joint venture between Rivian and Volkswagen Group focused on software-defined vehicle technologies, including operating systems, zonal controllers, cloud, and connectivity solutions. The Sr. Staff Functional Safety Engineers will work with systems engineering to understand vehicle-program features and functions, develop hazard and risk assessments and functional safety requirements, and coordinate safety requirements across vehicle, system, hardware, and software levels. The role oversees and leads integration validation and testing, maintains a single-source safety plan, and supervises engineers. Domestic travel is required approximately 20% of the time.
Requirements
- Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Electrical/Electronic Engineering or a closely related field and 2 years of experience in an engineering or related occupation in the automotive industry; alternatively, a bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in the stated field and 5 years of experience.
- Experience working with an OEM or Tier 1 within functional safety.
- Experience with ISO 26262 within an OEM or Tier 1.
- Experience working within a cross-functional team and leading indirect reports.
- Experience with vehicle system functionality and electro/mechanical control strategy.
Responsibilities
- Work with systems engineering to understand expected features and functions specific to a vehicle program.
- Derive detailed Hazard and Risk Assessments (HARA) and Functional Safety Requirements (FSRs) for a vehicle platform.
- Engage with core engineering functional safety engineers to drive technical content for Technical Safety Requirements (TSRs), hardware requirements, and software requirements, and derive ASIL metrics.
- Understand high-level safety implementation at the vehicle level and transition to low-level architecture and application of safety requirements to hardware and software.
- Oversee integration validation and testing activities between component hardware and software.
- Lead vehicle-level integration validation and testing for functional safety requirements.
- Maintain a single-source Safety Plan tracking safety work at vehicle, system, and component levels.
- Supervise engineers.
- Travel domestically approximately 20% of the time.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary.
- Eligibility for an annual company performance bonus program for full-time positions; payments are discretionary and not guaranteed.
- Eligibility for equity in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), subject to board approval and applicable plan terms and vesting requirements.
- Comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees, including health coverage, retirement savings, time off, and family planning programs; offerings vary by country.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
