Staff Functional Safety Engineer

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.