Functional Safety Technical Expert

We are seeking a Functional Safety Technical Expert to assess project safety plans and develop a FuSa Health Dashboard. You will work with Ford Connected Vehicle Software and Product Data Integrity, and supplier engineering teams to identify safety-related process and work product gaps and recommend best practice solutions. You will also develop a capability maturity plan working with engineering stakeholders and report to the Director of the Office of Functional Safety Assurance (OFSA).

Responsibilities

• Apply, demonstrate, and champion best-in-class methods, tools, and practices to ensure embedded software achieves safety.
• Lead the development of the FuSa Software Health Dashboard for the enterprise, including its metrics and criteria for maturity.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product engineering, program management, validation and verification, software, hardware, design, integration, quality, and architecture.
• Apply system engineering, risk analysis, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis methods to find software-related issues and close the loop to process, methods, and tools gaps.
• Align and exploit synergies with SQA to drive FuSa maturity.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to optimize software development and deployment processes, tools, and methodologies.
• Provide consistent health status, insights, risks, and opportunities to executive leadership and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
• FuSa Professional Accreditation: UL, TUV, Exida, or equivalent.
• Minimum of 7 years of hands-on experience in embedded automotive safety software verification.
• Demonstrable deep understanding of ISO-26262 Part 6.
• Experienced with tools commonly used in safety software test.
• Working knowledge of ISO-26262 Part 3,4 Concept and Systems Engineering process.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Leadership abilities, with a track record of initiative and problem-solving.

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