Job statistics for Principal Hardware & IC Functional Safety Architect
- Days open
- 17 days
- Estimated salary
- $151,000
- Based on Principal seniority, the Automotive industry and Germany market rates.
Technologies usedNone named
This posting does not name specific tools, languages or platforms.
Current safety team6 tracked professionals
- By function
- 2 senior / lead, 2 leadership, 2 engineering
- By level
- 1 senior
- Hiring now
- 14 open safety roles on FSTalent, including this one
Counts of functional safety professionals FSTalent tracks at NXP Semiconductors and roles it is hiring for. It is a sample of public profiles, not the full headcount.
- Ador Reodique — Functional Safety Manager
- Ankush Sethi — Product line Functional Safety Manager (MPU High end products)
- Antoine Dubois — System Safety Director
- Ayush Arunachalam — Functional Safety Architect
- Rohitaswa Bhattacharya — Technical Director, Automotive Systems Architecture - Functional Safety
- Xiankun "robert" Jin — Safety Innovation and Technology Roadmaps
Median tenure at company7.2 years
Median time employees have been at NXP Semiconductors, from its LinkedIn company page (as of 2026-09).
Principal Hardware & IC Functional Safety Architect
Job description
About the role
Come and join NXP and our Competence Centre as we shape the next generation of intelligent energy solutions with Power & Energy business.
NXP collaborates with global leaders to enable sustainable, autonomous, reliable, and safe energy solutions, leveraging decades of experience in innovative, robust, reliable, safe, and secure technologies.
Our Power & Energy portfolio addresses energy management, power conversion, and energy storage, with applications extending from automotive and industrial systems to data centers, energy infrastructure, and .
Within this dynamic environment, you will play a key role in defining and driving the Functional Safety architecture of NXP’s future power and energy semiconductor Analog solutions.
Your Role
As a Hardware & IC Functional Safety Architect, you will be a recognized technical expert responsible for defining the functional safety architecture of analog, mixed-signal, and power semiconductor products.
You will work across safety-related product developments, ensuring that hardware architectures, safety mechanisms, and associated safety analyses are appropriate to achieve the targeted and/or according to ISO 26262 and IEC 61508.
The role combines semiconductor expertise with functional safety system and hardware. You will translate application-level safety needs into robust and efficient IC-level safety concepts, balancing safety integrity, product performance, design complexity, silicon impact, and cost.
The role addresses traditional automotive safety applications as well as an expanding range of Power & Energy applications, including automotive electrification, energy management, data-center power infrastructure, industrial automation, and robotics.
Functional Safety Architecture
- Define and drive the hardware functional safety concept and architecture for safety-related IC developments.
- Translate system and application safety needs into IC-level safety requirements, safety mechanisms, and architectural concepts to achieve the targeted ASIL/SIL.
- Ensure consistency between safety requirements, product architecture, safety mechanisms, safety analyses, and assumptions of use.
- Identify opportunities for optimized and compact safety architectures, avoiding unnecessary complexity while maintaining the required safety integrity.
- Deliver Safety manual integration documentation and facilitate usage of the IC in safety related applications.
Safety Analysis
- Conduct hardware safety analyses, including , , FTA, and DFA.
- Evaluate hardware failure modes, diagnostic coverage, dependent failures, and residual risks.
- Demonstrate the relevant quantitative hardware architectural metrics objectives.
- Ensure that analysis results are fed back into architecture and design decisions.
Power & Energy Application Scope
The architect will provide functional safety expertise across semiconductor solutions addressing applications such as:
- Power management and power distribution
- Data-center power and energy infrastructure
- Industrial power and automation systems
- Robotics and autonomous industrial equipment
- Other safety-related analog, mixed-signal, and power semiconductor applications
Collaboration
The Hardware & IC Functional Safety Architect will work closely with:
- Product, System Architects and Definition teams
- Hardware and IC Design teams
- Functional Safety Managers
- teams
- Functional Safety assessors and auditors
- Application and system engineering teams
- Customers and ecosystem partners, where appropriate
Technical Background
- Master's degree or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Semiconductor Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Strong experience in semiconductor hardware architecture, IC design, product development.
- In-depth knowledge of ISO 26262 and/or IEC 61508.
- Practical experience with hardware safety analysis techniques such as FMEDA, FMEA, FTA and DFA.
- Understanding of requirements-driven semiconductor development and the relationship between system-level safety requirements and IC implementation.
The Successful Candidate Will Demonstrate
- Technical leadership and architectural thinking
- Ability to challenge complex architectures constructively
- Excellent communication across engineering, management, customers, and safety assessors
- Ability to connect system safety needs with practical semiconductor implementation
- A pragmatic approach to achieving the required safety integrity with an optimized HW architecture
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