Functional Safety Engineer - 37250BR

Synopsys, a world leader in the Semiconductor IP industry, is seeking a Functional Safety Engineer whose primary mandate is to ensure that Synopsys Automotive IPs comply with ISO 26262 and related standards for automotive functional safety and reliability. This position will work globally with internal development teams and external customers to ensure conformance torelated quality, functional safety, and automotive reliability requirements.

There will be some domestic and international travel required.

Responsibilities

• Work with customers, field teams, and product teams to evaluate customer requirements related to quality, functional safety, and automotive reliability
• Guide development teams in functional safety analysis across product planning, concept, design, implementation, and verification including hardware, firmware, and embedded software
• Required to assist and/or conduct in-depth qualitative and quantitative functional safety analyses such as FMEA/FMEDA, DFMEA, DFA and FTA
• Required to support development of key functional safety documents such as technical safety concepts, functional safety mechanisms as well as execution of functional safety assessments
• Work closely with internal development teams and automotive customers to ensure coordinated functional safety compliance
• Participate in quality and functional safety reviews and provide reports
• Maintain and enhance functional safety analysis and development methods, templates, and work products
• Employ and contribute to Synopsys’ Quality Management System
• Act as an internal functional safety auditor and assessor
• Other related tasks as assigned

Requirements

• University degree in Engineering or Computer Science with 5 years of relevant experience
• Knowledge of semiconductor development flows
• Highly proficient in English
• Formal training in ISO 26262
• Experience as a Functional Safety Architect or Engineer in safety critical applications with strong understanding of hardware and software development and functional lifecycle management
• Experience in qualifying systems with embedded hardware and/or software to various ISO 26262 ASIL levels up to ASIL D including areas of Random Hardware and Systematic Faults
• Experience with various ISO 26262 work products such as Technical Safety Concept; Safety Plan; FMEA/FMEDA, DFMEA, DFA and FTA Analyses; Safety Manual; Safety Case
• Working knowledge of automotive reliability standards such as AEC Q100 is an advantage
• Working knowledge of quality standards such as ISO 9001 or IATF 16949 is an advantage

Our Silicon IP business is all about integrating more capabilities into an SoC—faster. We offer the world’s broadest portfolio of silicon IP—predesigned blocks of logic, memory, interfaces, analog, security, and embedded processors. All to help customers integrate more capabilities. Meet unique performance, power, and size requirements of their target applications. And get differentiated products to market quickly with reduced risk.

At Synopsys, we’re at the heart of the innovations that change the way we work and play. Self-driving cars. Artificial Intelligence. The cloud. 5G. The Internet of Things. These breakthroughs are ushering in the Era of Smart Everything. And we’re powering it all with the world’s most advanced technologies for chip design and software security. If you share our passion for innovation, we want to meet you.

Inclusion and Diversity are important to us. Synopsys considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, military veteran status, or disability.