System Safety Engineer

Job Title: Functional Safety Hardware Engineer

Location: Long Beach (CA)

Duration: Long Term contract

Position Overview:

We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves, and build a better world -- together. At Ford, we’re all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves?

Ford’s Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You’ll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams.

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Functional Safety Hardware Engineer to join our dynamic team. In this critical role, you will be instrumental in ensuring the functional safety of hardware components for advanced automotive systems, with a particular emphasis on adhering to and implementing the requirements of ISO 26262 Part 5. You will work within a cross-functional environment to develop safe, reliable, and innovative hardware solutions for future Ford vehicles.

Key Responsibilities:

• Hardware Safety Requirement Specification & Architectural Design: Lead the derivation, specification, and decomposition of hardware safety requirements from technical safety concepts. Design and develop robust hardware architectures that effectively implement these requirements, ensuring traceability and alignment with overall safety goals and ASIL decomposition.
• Hardware Architectural Metric Evaluation: Perform detailed quantitative analyses to evaluate hardware architectural metrics, including the calculation of Single-Point Fault Metric (SPFM) and Latent Fault Metric (LFM). Utilize these metrics to demonstrate compliance with target ASILs and drive optimization of hardware redundancy and diagnostic coverage.
• Random Hardware Failure Evaluation: Conduct comprehensive probabilistic evaluations of random hardware failures, leveraging methods such as Failure Rate Inferred by Testing (FIT) rates and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA). Assess the probability of hazardous failures to ensure hardware designs meet the probabilistic metric for random hardware failures.
• Hardware Integration, Verification, and Validation for Safety: Define test strategies, develop test cases, and execute rigorous hardware integration and verification activities. This includes fault injection testing and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulations, to confirm the effective implementation and validation of hardware safety requirements.
• Collaboration and Documentation: Collaborate effectively with systems, software, manufacturing, and test teams, as well as external suppliers, to resolve functional safety issues throughout the product development lifecycle.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 5 years of experience in hardware development for automotive or safety-critical embedded systems.
• In-depth, practical working knowledge of ISO 26262, specifically Part 5, and its application to hardware development.
• Proficiency in performing hardware safety analyses (e.g. FMEDA, FTA) and calculating hardware architectural metrics (SPFM, LFM).
• Experience with hardware safety mechanisms and diagnostic features.
• Familiarity with hardware verification and validation techniques, including fault injection testing.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience with ASIL-oriented hardware development processes and methodologies.
• Experience with functional safety analysis and design tools such as Medini, Jama, and MagicDraw.
• Experience with tool qualification and configuration management for hardware development.
• Demonstrated problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently and as part of a cross-functional team.