Software Functional Safety Engineer

As a Software Functional Safety Engineer working in the Electric Power Conversion group, you will be responsible for performing functional safety base and application software safety development for power electronics components and Drive Unit systems.

Top Skills/Responsibilities:

• Develop SW-FTA, SW-FMEA, Freedom from interference (FFI), common cause/cascading failure (CCA/CFA) and dependent failure analysis (DFA) for embedded software including low level drivers and power electronics controls design.
• Develop software safety concepts, software safety requirements, software safety archiecture to provide software safety design recommendations including driving reviews with the design team.
• Develop software safety analysis, concepts and requirements for SoCs, microcontrollers/ICs. Develop safety measures (e.g. Plausibility check, Memory protection, Program flow monitoring, E2E protection) in application software and/or platform software
• Develop Design Verification Plan (DVP) for relevant software safety requirements including fault injections.
• Experience with requirements management tools (e.g. JAMA, Doors, etc.), issue tracking tools (Jira, Bugzilla, etc.), SW version control tools (e.g. Git, Bitbucket, SVN, etc.). Experience with C programming and/or model-based design using Simulink
• Knowledge and understanding of the systems and software design architecture of Low Voltage or Power Electronics design applications.

Core responsibilities for this role are:

• Perform software safety analysis of the embedded software to address safety anomalies.
• Develop SW-FTA, SW-FMEA, Freedom from interference (FFI), common cause/cascading failure (CCA/CFA) and dependent failure analysis (DFA) for embedded software including low level drivers and power electronics controls design.
• Develop software safety concepts, software safety requirements, software safety archiecture to provide software safety design recommendations including driving reviews with the design team.
• Develop software safety analysis, concepts and requirements for SoCs, microcontrollers/ICs.
• Develop safety measures (e.g. Plausibility check, Memory protection, Program flow monitoring, E2E protection) in application software and/or platform software
• Develop software architecture in safety critical path for different subsystems.
• Support (but not develop) hardware safety analysis (FTA, FMEDA) and hardware safety requirements development.
• Develop traceability between software, technical safety requirements, relevant test cases and work-products in traceability tool.
• Develop Design Verification Plan (DVP) for relevant software safety requirements including fault injections.
• Support the software test team in executing test cases with troubleshooting abilities.
• Support vehicle functional safety team in development of technical safety requirements and hazard analysis risk assessment.
• Maintenance of software safety requirements and architecture with implementation agreements.
• Support defining programming and coding guidelines for the software development teams
• Support tool classification and qualification across Rivian's software toolsets

this is what you'll need:

To execute the role, you will be expected to have:

• MS or BS degree or PhD in Electrical, Embedded or Software Engineering
• Experience with embedded systems
• 5+ Years of experience developing embedded software and controls with a functional safety engineering background in ISO 26262 part 3, 4, 6 and 8.
• Knowledge of communication protocols such as CAN, SPI and LIN
• Experience with requirements management tools (e.g. JAMA, Doors, etc.), issue tracking tools (Jira, Bugzilla, etc.), SW version control tools (e.g. Git, Bitbucket, SVN, etc.)
• Experience with C programming and/or model-based design using Simulink
• Knowledge and understanding of the systems and software design architecture of Power Electronics design applications.
• Additional experience working on Texas Instruments, Infineon automotive safety processors is a plus
• Knowledge of failure modes and failure effects of embedded software and controls design with prior experience in performing software FTA, FMEA, FFI, DFA, cascading and common cause analysis.
• Experience/proficiency with embedded debugging tools such as PLS/ UAD or similar - Experience/proficiency with communication tools such as Wireshark, CANalyzer or CANape - Experience with requirements management tools (Jama), issue tracking tools (Jira), SW version control tools (git)
• Ability to work with resilience, zooming out and with out of the box thinking.
• Strong team player with a drive to exceed expectations and meet deadlines.
• Experience working within a cross-functional team

Preferred to have:

• Tools expertise with Medini, Plato or similar strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with E-Gas Level 1/2/3 Concept
• ISO 26262 Certified
• FreeRTOS safety qualification prior experience, baremetal development experience