Senior Automotive Functional Safety Manager - ISO 26262

CS GROUP; Montreal; Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Telemedicine service

RRSP program

Personal and sick days

Recreation room

Job summary

CS Group Canada is seeking an experienced System Safety Manager to lead system-level Functional Safety activities for next‑gen vehicles. You’ll collaborate with FS Managers and Experts across OEMs, system integrators, and suppliers to drive ISO 26262 compliance and safety evidence.

Open to candidates in US (Michigan) or Canada (Ontario/Quebec). The role emphasizes interfaces between automotive domains, safety analyses, and safety evidence development within a high‑tech, high‑stakes environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Systems, Electrical, Computer, or Software Engineering.
• 10+ years of experience in systems engineering, functional safety, or safety-critical automotive product development.
• Strong expertise in ISO 26262, particularly Parts 4, 5, and 6, with hands‑on application across the product lifecycle.
• Experience developing key safety work products, including Item Definitions, HARA, Functional and Technical Safety Concepts, safety requirements, and safety plans.
• Practical experience performing safety analyses such as FMEA (System/Software), FTA, DFA-FFI and FMEDA.
• Proven ability to define, allocate, and integrate safety requirements across system, hardware, and software architectures.
• Experience with connected vehicle technologies, including TCU and OTA systems.
• Strong knowledge of requirements management, traceability, and safety verification & validation.
• Experience in system integration, verification, validation, test development, and compliance activities.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and root‑cause analysis skills.
• Experience preparing safety evidence and supporting compliance assessments.
• Excellent communication, technical leadership, and cross‑functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Support the definition and refinement of the system context, safety requirements, system boundaries, interfaces, and safety-related functions.
• Support the development and review of functional safety work products, including safety concepts, safety requirements, development plans, and safety-related architecture.
• Perform and/or review safety analyses such as FMEA, FTA, and FMEDA and support the definition of appropriate safety measures.
• Support the allocation and integration of safety requirements and safety mechanisms across system, hardware, and software elements.
• Define and maintain the safety verification and validation strategy, plans, procedures, test specifications, and requirements-to-test traceability.
• Support the preparation of test environments, tools, configurations, and resources required for safety verification and validation.
• Support and/or perform integration, verification, and validation activities against defined safety requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Analyze test results and deviations and support troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and definition of corrective actions.
• Prepare and review verification and validation reports and supporting safety evidence.
• Support the assessment of the completeness, consistency, and compliance of the safety evidence against applicable functional safety requirements and standards.

Skills

ISO 26262 expertise

Safety analyses

System safety engineering

Requirements management

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Engineering

Job description

CS Group Canada is seeking an experienced System Safety Manager to lead system-level Functional Safety activities for next‑gen vehicles. You’ll collaborate with FS Managers and Experts across OEMs, system integrators, and suppliers to drive ISO 26262 compliance and safety evidence.

Open to candidates in US (Michigan) or Canada (Ontario/Quebec). The role emphasizes interfaces between automotive domains, safety analyses, and safety evidence development within a high‑tech, high‑stakes environment.