# Staff Functional Safety Engineer **Company**: Ford Motor Company **Location**: Long Beach, CA **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: staff **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $146,520-276,600 **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Automotive **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294 **Apply**: https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/69723?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_001c6a66-7f1 ## Description Ford's Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is seeking a Staff Functional Safety Engineer to ensure the safety of complex electronic control features. You will lead the end-to-end safety lifecycle from initial concept through production, ensuring full compliance with ISO 26262. Responsibilities: - Lead and execute end-to-end functional safety analyses, including HARA, FMEA, and FTA, to identify potential hazards and quantitatively assess safety risks across the autonomous system. - Define and manage the comprehensive set of functional safety requirements and safety concepts that govern system architecture and design choices. - Lead the development and assessment of full safety cases for ASIL A-D products, managing the lifecycle from initial concept to production. - Collaborate with system and hardware design engineers to develop and document hardware-level functional safety requirements and decompose module-level requirements into ECU-level requirements. - Derive and verify technical safety concepts and hardware metrics, including PMHF, SPFM, and LFM, to meet ISO 26262 Part 5 and Part 11 requirements. - Oversee and optimize the program safety readiness process and metrics. - Serve as a core safety expert in cross-functional design reviews and technical discussions, ensuring safety goals are met effectively throughout the development lifecycle. - Champion and promote a robust safety culture and the continuous improvement of the safety program across the engineering organization. - Identify and provide training, coaching, and mentoring to peers and junior engineers to establish technical best practices. Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Physical Sciences, or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience. - Minimum of 4+ years of functional safety engineering experience in safety-critical systems within the automotive, aerospace, or industrial sectors. - Deep expertise in the application and assessment of ISO 26262:2018 and familiarity with ISO 21448 (SOTIF). - Extensive experience leading and performing complex safety analyses (HARA, FMEA, FTA, DFA, STPA) for autonomous or highly complex E/E systems. - Strong understanding of failure mode analysis for complex electrical designs, ASICs, and advanced electrical circuits. - Demonstrated technical project management skills with the ability to manage multiple parallel, cross-functional safety-critical projects. - Deep understanding of embedded control system development, embedded software, and verification and validation (V&V) processes. - Background in data science and statistics with a focus on analyzing performance for quantitative risk reduction and safety assessment. - Proven leadership experience working with external partners, suppliers, and regulatory bodies or auditors. - Excellent communication skills with a track record of leading technical meetings with leadership teams and providing mentorship to engineering peers. Benefits: - Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage - Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more - Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more - Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases - Tuition assistance - Established and active employee resource groups - Paid time off for individual and team community service - A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day - Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time. ## Skills ### Required - ISO 26262 - functional safety engineering - safety-critical systems - electrical engineering - computer science - data science - statistics --- Source: [Apply at efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com](https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/69723?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)