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Functional Safety Engineer
StageUnknownStandardsISO 26262IndustryAutomotiveSeniorityMid-levelRegionUnited KingdomWork modeHybridSource year2026Company sizeUnknownCompensation£55,300 - £74,800Benefitsadapt to your organisation
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Role summary
In this role, you will help deliver functional safety solutions for next-generation GPU products targeting automotive, robotics, and other safety-critical applications. Working closely with architecture, hardware development, verification and software teams, you will play a role in the development of safety concepts, safety analyses, and safety work products throughout the product lifecycle.
This is an excellent opportunity for engineers with a strong hardware background who are passionate about developing safe, high-quality products and advancing the state of the art in functional safety.
Responsibilities
- Develop and review functional safety work products in accordance with ISO 26262Road Vehicles - Functional Safety. Automotive functional safety standard defining ASILAutomotive Safety Integrity Level (A to D) under ISO 26262, derived from severity, exposure, and controllability. Read more levels and the automotive safety lifecycle. Read more.
- Create and maintain Safety Plans, Safety Cases, Safety Manuals and related documentation.
- Perform safety analyses including FMEAFailure Modes and Effects Analysis: a bottom-up method cataloging how components fail and what effects those failures produce. Read more, DFA, FTA and FMEDAFailure Modes, Effects and Diagnostic Analysis: quantitative failure analysis producing safe/dangerous failure rates and diagnostic coverage. Read more.
- Support hardware and software teams in deriving and implementing safety requirements.
- Write, review and manage safety requirements throughout the development lifecycle.
- Participate in Functional SafetyThe part of overall safety that depends on a system or equipment operating correctly in response to its inputs, including safe management of faults and failures. Read more audits, assessments and reviews.
- Support tool qualification activities where required.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of the Company's Functional Safety methodologies and processes.
- Collaborate across multiple engineering teams to ensure safety objectives are successfully achieved.
Requirements
- Good understanding of computer architecture and modern SoC design principles.
- Knowledge of functional safety concepts and standards, particularly ISO 26262.
- Experience in RTL design of complex ASICs, IPs or SoCs.
- Experience with safety analysis techniques such as Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA), Dependent Failure Analysis(DFA), Fault Tree AnalysisA top-down deductive analysis tracing an undesired top event to combinations of lower-level faults using boolean logic. Read more (FTA), or FMEDA.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, multi-functional environment.
Nice to have
- Experience with GPU, CPU or other complex processor architectures.
- Familiarity with verification methodologies including System Verilog, UVM or formal verification.
- Experience with industry-standard EDA tools (e.g. Cadence or Synopsys).
- Knowledge of requirements management tools such as Jama, DRM or similar.
- Exposure to both hardware and software functional safety development.
- Experience supporting external or internal safety assessments and audits.