Automotive functional safety engineer

Automotive Functional Safety Engineer - Digital DesignWare IP

Job Description and Requirements
At Synopsys, we’re at the heart of the innovations that change the way we work and play. Self-driving cars. Artificial Intelligence. The cloud. 5G. The Internet of Things. These breakthroughs are ushering in the Era of Smart Everything. And we’re powering it all with the world’s most advanced technologies for chip design and software security. If you share our passion for innovation, we want to meet you.

Our Silicon IP business is all about integrating more capabilities into an SoC—faster. We offer the world’s broadest portfolio of silicon IP—predesigned blocks of logic, memory, interfaces, analog, security, and embedded processors. All to help customers integrate more capabilities. Meet unique performance, power, and size requirements of their target applications. And get differentiated products to market quickly with reduced risk.

We're looking for Automotive Safety Engineers to join our IP team.
Synopsys is seeking a Functional Safety Engineer whose primary mandate is to ensure that Synopsys Automotive IPs comply with ISO 26262 and related standards for automotive functional safety and reliability. This position will work globally with internal development teams and external customers to ensure conformance to related quality, functional safety, and automotive reliability requirements.
The Automotive Safety Engineer is responsible for:

• Work with ISO26262 workproducts such as Technical Safety Concept, FMEDA, FTA, DFMEA, Safety Plan, Safety Case etc.
• Work with internal product development teams and automotive customers to ensure coordinated functional safety compliance
• Work with internal team to evaluate customer requirements related to quality, functional safety, and automotive reliability
• Work closely with the Functional Safety and internal product development teams on projects and task planning, progress tracking and reporting
• Develop automation scripts for automotive safety analyses
• Participate in quality and functional safety reviews and provide reports
• Maintain and enhance functional safety methods and templates

Key Qualifications

• Must have BSEE in EE with 8+ years of relevant experience or MSEE with 7+ years of relevant
• Understanding of semiconductor development flows & experience with digital design at IP/SoC level preferable
• Proficient in English
• Formal training in ISO 26262
• Experience as a Functional Safety Engineer in safety critical applications with solid understanding of hardware and/or software development and functional lifecycle management
• Experience in qualifying systems with embedded hardware and/or software to various ISO 26262 ASIL levels up to ASIL D
• Experience in working on ISO 26262 part 5 is an advantage
• Familiarity with Hardware Description languages is an advantage
• Working understanding of automotive reliability standards such as AEC Q100 is an advantage
• Working understanding of quality standards such as ISO 9001 or IATF 16949 is an advantage

Inclusion and Diversity are important to us. Synopsys considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, military veteran status, or disability.