Systems Safety Engineer

FEV North America Inc • Auburn Hills, MI

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About The Position

The Systems Safety Engineer ensures the safety and reliability of complex systems by identifying hazards, assessing risks, and implementing mitigation strategies throughout the system lifecycle. The role aligns identified hazards and safety-significant functions with implementing systems, subsystems, hardware, software, and communications, and maintains traceability among hazards, safety requirements, design elements, mitigations, and verification evidence.

The engineer supports identification and classification of Safety Significant Functions (SSF) and implementing items, as well as development and management of Software Control Categories (SCC) and Software Criticality Indices (SwCI). The position also supports maturation and maintenance of the FHA and Hazard Tracking System (HTS) as vehicle design evolves; evaluates system architecture and proposed design controls against hazards and required risk reduction; and works with third-party suppliers to assess whether safety-case evidence addresses the safety responsibilities of supplied components or subsystems. The role identifies gaps between supplier safety evidence and vehicle-level safety requirements.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of systems safety engineering experience; preferably 5 years or more.
• B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering.
• Knowledge and experience with the processes, work products, and analysis methods of MIL-STD-882E and/or ISO 26262.
• Perform and support safety analysis at the system, subsystem, and component levels.
• Experience performing FMEA/FMECA.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen or Green Card Holder.

Nice To Haves

• Working knowledge of DO-178C, DO-254, ARP4761, and ARP4754.
• FMEDA experience.
• Five or more years of systems safety engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Align identified hazards and safety-significant functions to implementing systems, subsystems, hardware, software, and communications.
• Develop and maintain traceability between hazards, safety requirements, design elements, mitigations, and verification evidence.
• Support identification and classification of Safety Significant Functions (SSF) and implementing items.
• Support development and management of Software Control Categories (SCC) and Software Criticality Indices (SwCI).
• Support maturation and maintenance of the FHA and Hazard Tracking System (HTS) as vehicle design evolves.
• Evaluate system architecture and proposed design controls against identified hazards and required risk reduction.
• Work with third-party suppliers to review and assess safety-case evidence and determine whether supplier safety arguments, analyses, assumptions, and constraints adequately address the safety responsibilities of supplied components or subsystems.
• Identify gaps between supplier safety evidence and vehicle-level safety requirements.
• Perform and support safety analysis at the system, subsystem, and component levels.
• Perform FMEA/FMECA.

What This Job Offers

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