Functional Safety Lead

What you'll do

• Lead hazard, fault, failure, and sensor-safety analyses; derive safety goals and requirements and maintain hazard-to-evidence traceability.
• Assess the safety impact of changes to hardware, sensors, software, platform variants, and operating domains, including defining assessment triggers and evidence requirements.
• Develop reusable analysis methods and tools, including change-impact triage, automated traceability checks, and AI-assisted analysis workflows.

What they ask for

• 8+ years in functional safety in automotive, automated vehicles, aerospace, industrial automation, or another safety-critical hardware domain, with hands-on analysis experience.
• Demonstrated ownership of HARA, FMEA, and FTA on systems that shipped.
• Fluency in ISO 26262, ISO 21448 (SOTIF), and UL 4600; experience making release-gating safety decisions under time pressure.
• Hardware and electrical depth, plus programming ability in Python or similar to analyze field data and build tooling.

Nice to have

• Experience authoring or defending a safety case to an external party; functional safety certification such as TÜV FSEng or equivalent demonstrated depth.
• Experience with fault injection frameworks, HIL, or automated safety verification pipelines.

Pay

$182,000 - $238,000 per year (USD, base salary)

Tools

ISO 26262, ISO 21448 (SOTIF), UL 4600, Python

AI focus

Use and shape AI tools for failure-mode generation, gap checking, standards and requirements research, and change triage; build supporting tools. Treat generated outputs as hypotheses requiring human verification and traceable justification.