# Functional Safety Technical Expert

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $112,680-$212,760
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

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

## Skills

### Required
- ISO-26262
- FuSa
- Software Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Computer Science
- Safety Analysis
- Risk Analysis
- Troubleshooting
- Root Cause Analysis
- System Engineering
- Software Development
- Verification
- Validation

### Nice to have
- Master's degree in a technical or Management field
- Additional experience in Systems, Hardware development for Safety applications
- Experience with software-related standards development
- Strategic and systemic thinking
- Adaptability
- Innovation
- Continuous improvement mindset

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