Staff Functional Safety Engineer, Self-Driving

Rivian

10000

United States, California, Palo Alto, United States

Posted on: 2022-08-29

Category: emobility

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Intermediate

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Doing something different is never easy. It requires courage, optimism and grit. Core to our mission is building a team of adventurous individuals determined to make a positive impact on the world. This means challenging ourselves constantly. Stretching beyond the bounds of conventional thinking. Reframing old problems. Seeking new solutions. And operating comfortably in a space of uncertainty. While our backgrounds are diverse, our team shares a love of the outdoors and a desire to protect it for future generations. Do you like doing the impossible? We’d love to hear from you.

Rivian is on a mission to keep the world adventurous forever. This goes for the emissions-free Electric Adventure Vehicles we build, and the curious, courageous souls we seek to attract.

As a company, we constantly challenge what’s possible, never simply accepting what has always been done. We reframe old problems, seek new solutions and operate comfortably in areas that are unknown. Our backgrounds are diverse, but our team shares a love of the outdoors and a desire to protect it for future generations.

Role Summary

As a Staff Functional Safety Engineer for the Self-Driving team, you will be an active participant in developing the functional safety concept, including all aspects of feature decomposition and analysis throughout the vehicle program lifecycle. In order to do this, you will work closely with the Vehicle System Engineering Functional Safety engineering team to ensure vehicle system level compliance and provide technical guidance in the form of consulting and independent peer reviews of the system with other cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

Contribute to ADAS and Self-Driving feature requirements and provide functional safety guidance on feature definition, design, verification, and validation
Perform FTA analysis in relation to vehicle level safety goals as well as be an active participant in DFMEA activities
Identify SOTIF safety goals and requirements
Capture derived functional safety and SOTIF requirements within the Rivian requirements tool and maintain the traceability and quality
Work with national traffic data bases, and literature to define qualitative and quantitative criteria for SOTIF
Represent the Self-Driving functional safety team working alongside the engineering departments to provide technical consultation, guidance and approval as part of feature development activities
Work with the vehicle and system architecture teams to derive functional safety requirements and technical requirements from derived safety goals
Provide independent peer review and approval of functional safety activities including technical review and resolution with other cross-functional domains and suppliers in the establishment and agreement of DIAs
Be a single point of contact for the Self-Driving team to ensure compliance throughout the functional safety program life-cycle
Co-ordinate across vehicle system and other cross-functional engineering teams to achieve deliverables

Qualifications

Bachelors or Masters degree in Electrical/Electronic or Mechanical (or similar) Engineering or equivalent experience
3+ years of experience in functional safety ( ISO 26262) in relation to ADAS features
Hands on experience on safety analysis methods (FTA,FMEA,STPA)
Good interpersonal and communication skills with a high level of integrity
Experience working within a cross-functional team
Understanding of emerging standards such as ISO 21448 (Safety of the Intended Function) and UL 4600
Guide further decomposition into sub-system design and technical safety requirements for both hardware and software
Good working knowledge of vehicle system functionality and electro/mechanical control strategy
Ability to report to senior management and report accurate information in a clear and concise manner

Preferred Qualifications

2+ years of experience in SOTIF (Safety of the Intended Function)

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Equal Opportunity

Rivian is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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