Functional Safety Manager - Battery Systems

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Are you looking to work for a company that provides an innovative work environment, and your voice is heard? We have a position for a Functional Safety Manager.

Who we are :

LER TechForce is an industry leader in embedded controls, software, functional safety, and engineering talent. For over 20 years LER has been working with customers across North America to meet their engineering resource challenges.

What you will be doing :

• Develop the Functional Safety organization for EV components (battery, converter, motor control etc.) products
• Requirements development and implementation of ISO26262 work products
• OBD 3-Step development for various FuSa diagnostics
• Provide technical advice on applying ISO26262 across multiple CSAR based engine programs
• Conduct standard safety analyses, applying functional safety standards to provide feedback and guidance to engineering design teams for systems, hardware, and software on safety findings and to recommend design changes that improve automotive embedded safety systems and ensure compliance to safety goals
• Lead the safety plan and enable the project team through all phases of safety engineering : requirements elicitation, item definitions, preliminary hazard analysis and risk assessment, functional safety concept, technical safety concept, item integration, safety validation
• Perform technical analysis and provide results to support the development of the safety concept and artifacts of the safety case : hazard and risk assessment, hazard metric translation, define safety goals and criteria, ASIL decomposition, FMEA and FTA analysis
• Consult and collaborate with the software design teams to achieve effective technical solutions and ensure that all safety requirements are robust at the systems level, hardware interface level and software architectural levels
• Analyze / define the functional safety requirements within the project based on customer requirements and end-user perspective while considering constraints and safety standards as the main objective
• Carry out design analysis to support the development of safety case arguments
• Create / update hazard and risk analyses, safety plan, functional and technical safety concepts
• Specify safety requirements and safety concepts for system / components
• Support the definition / specification of safety requirements for hardware and software architectures
• Judge if system design / architecture can fulfill requirements, considering hardware-software components, interfaces, functional and environmental dependencies
• Collaborate with the design team to craft effective technical solutions that achieve adequate robustness at System, HW and SW architectural levels in ISO26262 compliance
• Lead / support Safety Assessment Reviews
• Lead / performs safety analysis using standard deductive (FMEA, FMEDA) and inductive (FMEA, FTA) methods, with outcomes informing system design / architecture
• Support safety verification & validation activities
• Lead / participate in safety review meetings
• Actively participate in product development, including planning and monitoring of safety plans and their validation testing

What you'll need to be successful :

Bachelors in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Control Engineering, Physics or related field if combined with development engineering experience in embedded control systems

Minimum 2+ years' experience as a safety analyst in an automotive environment (preferred)

Experience with Embedded Electronic Controls systems (BMS, motor control, electric motors, inverter, etc.) (preferred)

Experience applying safety according to ISO 26262 standards, or IEC 61508 (preferred)

Good understanding of embedded Software engineering and Hardware engineering domains (preferred)

Automotive product engineering experience with OEMs (preferred)

Preferred :

FTA

FMEA

Failure metrics analysis in accordance with ISO 26262 and / or Safe Failure Fraction per IEC 61508

Reliability Predictions

What you'll get :

Full benefits : medical, dental, vision, HSA and FSA

401K with a match and immediate vesting

Short-term & Long-term disability, life insurance and other optional benefits

Employee Assistance Program

Employee Discounts

Ongoing professional development opportunities including Technical Training and Leadership Development

The opportunity to work on industry leading projects

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Management and Manufacturing

Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting, Software Development, and Financial Services

Columbus, IN

Location updates : Franklin, IN; Columbus, IN; Seymour, IN

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