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Functional Safety Hardware Engineer

You will be instrumental in ensuring the functional safety of hardware components for advanced automotive systems, with a particular emphasis on adhering to and implementing the requirements of ISO 26262 Part 5. You will work within a cross‑functional environment to develop safe, reliable, and innovative hardware solutions for vehicles.

Key Responsibilities

• Hardware Safety Requirement Specification & Architectural Design: Lead the derivation, specification, and decomposition of hardware safety requirements from technical safety concepts. Design and develop robust hardware architectures that effectively implement these requirements, ensuring traceability and alignment with overall safety goals and ASIL decomposition.
• Hardware Architectural Metric Evaluation: Perform detailed quantitative analyses to evaluate hardware architectural metrics, including the calculation of Single‑Point Fault Metric (SPFM) and Latent Fault Metric (LFM). Utilize these metrics to demonstrate compliance with target ASILs and drive optimization of hardware redundancy and diagnostic coverage.
• Random Hardware Failure Evaluation: Conduct comprehensive probabilistic evaluations of random hardware failures, leveraging methods such as Failure Rate Inferred by Testing (FIT) rates and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA). Assess the probability of hazardous failures to ensure hardware designs meet the probabilistic metric for random hardware failures.
• Hardware Integration, Verification, and Validation for Safety: Define test strategies, develop test cases, and execute rigorous hardware integration and verification activities. This includes fault injection testing and hardware‑in‑the‑loop (HIL) simulations, to confirm the effective implementation and validation of hardware safety requirements.
• Collaboration and Documentation: Collaborate effectively with systems, software, manufacturing, and test teams, as well as external suppliers, to resolve functional safety issues throughout the product development lifecycle.

Key Skills

• Expertise in Hardware Safety Requirement Specification and Architectural Design: Proven ability to derive, specify, and cascade hardware safety requirements from technical safety concepts, and to translate these into robust hardware architectural designs, ensuring traceability and consistency with the overall safety goals and ASIL decomposition.
• Deep Understanding of Random Hardware Failure Evaluation: Strong background in conducting probabilistic evaluations of random hardware failures, including the use of methods like Failure Rate Inferred by Testing (FIT) rates and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), to assess the probability of hazardous failures and ensure the hardware design meets the probabilistic metric for random hardware failures.
• Design and Implementation of Hardware Safety Mechanisms: Demonstrated capability in selecting, designing, and implementing appropriate hardware safety mechanisms (e.g., error detection and correction codes, monitoring functions, self‑tests, diverse redundancy) to mitigate systematic faults and detect/control random hardware failures, aligning with the specified ASIL requirements.
• Hardware Integration, Verification, and Validation for Safety: Practical experience in defining test strategies, developing test cases, and executing comprehensive hardware integration and verification activities, including fault injection testing and hardware‑in‑the‑loop (HIL) simulations, to confirm that the hardware safety requirements are effectively implemented and validated.
• Experience in HV voltage systems (Preferred): Experience in designing high voltage power electronics and electronic modules is preferred.

Minimum Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in hardware development for automotive or safety‑critical embedded systems.
• In‑depth, practical working knowledge of ISO 26262, specifically Part 5, and its application to hardware development.
• Proficiency in performing hardware safety analyses (e.g., FMEDA, FTA) and calculating hardware architectural metrics (SPFM, LFM).
• Experience with hardware safety mechanisms and diagnostic features.
• Familiarity with hardware verification and validation techniques, including fault injection testing.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with ASIL‑oriented hardware development processes and methodologies.
• Experience with functional safety analysis and design tools such as Medini, Jama, and MagicDraw.
• Experience with tool qualification and configuration management for hardware development.
• Demonstrated problem‑solving skills and the ability to work independently and as part of a cross‑functional team.

Estimated Min Rate: $80.00

Estimated Max Rate: $100.00

Benefits & Perks

• Medical, Prescription, Dental & Vision Benefits (for employees working 20+ hours per week)
• Health Savings Account (HSA) (for employees working 20+ hours per week)
• Life & Disability Insurance (for employees working 20+ hours per week)
• MetLife Voluntary Benefits
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Direct Deposit & weekly e‑payroll
• Referral Bonus Programs
• Certification and training opportunities

Additional Information

Yoh, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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