Functional Safety Architect

Initial freelance contract till the end of 2024 + extensions

Munich, Germany / Remote (1 week onsite, 3 weeks remote per month)

COMPANY DESCRIPTION:
Our client enables secure connections for a smarter world, advancing solutions that make lives easier, better, and safer. As the world leader in secure connectivity solutions for embedded applications, our client is driving innovation in the automotive, industrial & IoT, mobile, and communication infrastructure markets.

BUSINESS UNIT DESCRIPTION:
Our client's Automotive business unit offers sensor and processing technology that drives all aspects of the secure connected cars of today and the autonomous cars of tomorrow.

JOB SUMMARY
This vacancy is within the Functional Safety Group in MCU/MPU Engineering group. Candidates with strong motivation to learn the evolving field of Functional Safety and get hands-on experience in the associated practices are desired.

REQUIRED:
* Master's degree or PhD in Electronics/Electrical/Computer Engineering or equivalent.
* Experience in Micro-controller and Micro-processor Architecture
* Hands-on experience in at least one of the following:
o Automotive system architecture knowledge such as Electric Vehicle, Autonomous driving System, or In-Vehicle Networking architecture
o AI/ML HW Accelerator Architecture
o RISC-V ISA
o Functional Safety, Reliability, Diagnostic and Test
o Embedded Software for critical system
* Strong motivation to learn about Functional Safety and associated practices.

PREFERRED:
* Experience in semiconductor product development (IP Design, Verification, DFT, Physical Implementation, Tools & Methodology, etc).
* Experience in embedded system and software development.
* Experience with ISO26262 or IEC61508
* Experience in Safety Analysis Techniques (FTA, DFA, FMEDA).
* Experience in System Level Modeling or Application development.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
* Develop System level Safety Use Cases using System Engineering technics
* Develop System, SoC, and Software level safety architecture
* Perform System, SoC, and Software safety analysis
* Review and develop IP, SoC and Software related Safety work products compliant to ISO26262.
* Participate in Safety Audits and Assessments.
* Support our client's customers to use Safety work products developed by their Safety Team.
* Develop disruptive Safety Architecture for Long-Term Innovation