Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies
Staff Embedded Software Engineer, Functional Safety
$171K–$214K
Irvine, California · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 24, 2026
- Experience
- 5–7 years of professional experience focused on functional safety in automotive, aerospace, industrial, or equivalent sectors.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field.
About the job
Implements platform-level embedded software and functional safety components for automotive systems, ensuring software safety requirements are designed, verified, and documented through production.
What you'll do
- Develop microcontroller software, including multi-threaded and multi-core embedded systems.
- Evaluate functional safety requirements and analyses, and create verification and validation methods and test procedures.
- Represent functional safety across engineering and manufacturing teams and document safety work throughout the product lifecycle.
What they ask for
- Strong proficiency in C and hands-on embedded software development with microcontroller-based systems.
- Experience with RTOS-based development and multi-threaded and multi-core programming.
- Experience applying ISO 26262:2018 (particularly Parts 5 and 11) or IEC 61508 (particularly Parts 1, 2, and 3).
- Practical experience with safety requirements, technical safety concepts, FMEDA, FTA, and DFA.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with AI-enabled engineering flows for automotive functional safety.
- Experience taking embedded safety concepts from R&D through launch, or in safety-critical verification and validation or hardware subsystem testing.
Pay
$171K – $213.9K USD base salary
Tools
C, RTOS, ISO 26262:2018, IEC 61508, FMEDA, FTA, DFA
AI focus
Familiarity with AI-enabled engineering flows as applied to automotive functional safety is preferred.
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