Functional Safety Engineer (Automotive)
Work Location: Troy, Michigan, United States
Workplace type: Onsite
Company Industry: Automotive

We're ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company that provides solutions for engineering, technology, and product development projects. For decades, we've been helping our clients develop products that are changing the world, from the efficient heavy truck of tomorrow to a fully autonomous electric taxi. Our team of more than 400 people works across industries including automotive OEM, tier 1 suppliers, commercial vehicle, electric vehicle, new energy, rail, and more. Our offices across the US have different industry focuses and engage with our clients in different ways, ranging from working on-site at client facilities to performing product development at our delivery centers.

ALTEN Group, our parent company, has been a leader in engineering and information technology for more than 30 years. ALTEN Group operates in 30 countries across Europe, North America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East and employs more than 36,000 people, 88% of whom are engineers. The company covers the whole development cycle and offers a choice of service levels, from technology consulting to complete project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you join a group of people passionate about collaborating to solve some of the world's most technical engineering challenges. Our success is tied to taking care of our employees, building relationships, and providing opportunities for mentorship and career growth. We offer comprehensive benefits for all full-time employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance; a 401(k) plan with employer matching; paid time off (PTO); paid parental leave; and mentorship to help you take your career to the next level.

Job Description:

• Lead the functional safety engineering function for all electronics programs
• Interface with customer to collect and clarify functional safety requirements. Track requirements through design, coding, unit testing, integration testing, validation and release phases
• Interface with internal groups such as system, electrical, mechanical, validation, manufacturing, project leaders, program managers and external groups such as suppliers
• Be creative in developing optimized system and software architectures that meets the safety goals from the customer
• Review safety solutions from suppliers and apply them to architecture designs
• Provide effort estimates and support quotation activities
• Ensure functional safety elements are included in DFMEA and in manufacturing test specifications
• Act as mentor to other engineers
• Participate in improvement of personal, departmental and technological capabilities
• Support product builds, launches and investigation of functional safety issues
• Be motivated and have strong problem-solving skills
• Provides, exchanges, or present technical information from multiple data sources
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Requirement

• BS degree in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering. Master's degree is a plus
• Minimum 8 years of experience in automotive or equivalent embedded systems
• Minimum 5 years of experience in automotive functional safety ISO 26262
• Experience in automotive serial communication protocols such as CAN & LIN
• Experience in different microcontrollers and peripherals such as SPI, GPIO, PWM, etc.
• Software Quality and Process Improvement standards such as CMMI or Automotive SPICE