Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies
Sr. Functional Safety Engineer
$147K–$202K
Palo Alto, California · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Apr 28, 2026
- Experience
- 3-5+ years of relevant functional safety design experience in automotive, industrial, or aerospace.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent engineering degree.
About the job
Designs and verifies hardware-level functional safety for electric-vehicle electronic control units and zonal architecture.
What you'll do
- Derive and implement hardware safety requirements and support safety analysis, including FTA, FMEDA, DFA, and PMHF.
- Develop verification and validation methods, write test procedures, and support hardware subsystem testing.
- Document safety requirements, analyses, architecture implementation, verification, and validation; support component FIT-rate derivation.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent engineering degree.
- Experience developing systems based on ISO 26262:2018 Part 5 and Part 11, or IEC 61508 Part 1, 2 & 3.
- Experience with advanced electronics design and electrical-circuit analysis.
- Experience with failure-analysis tools including FTA and FMEDA, and cross-functional safety engineering projects.
Pay
$146,900 – $201,850 USD (base salary)
Tools
ISO 26262:2018 Part 5, ISO 26262:2018 Part 11, IEC 61508 Part 1, 2 & 3, FTA, FMEDA, DFA, PMHF
Model-written summary · the original posting is authoritative