Safety Engineer (f/m/d)

NXP Semiconductors NV; München; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

NXP Semiconductors NV is seeking a Safety Engineer for the Functional Safety Competence Center to develop safety-compliant semiconductor products. You will define, analyze, and validate safety concepts and architectures, collaborate with cross-functional teams across hardware, software, and systems, and drive safety analyses to certifiable solutions.

Candidates with strong MCU/MPU experience and a background in chip design architecture who are motivated to learn Functional Safety are encouraged

Qualifikationen

• > Bachelor’s degree in Electronics/Electrical/Computer Engineering or equivalent.
• • 7–15 years of semiconductor product development with exposure to functional safety.
• • Strong understanding of MCU/MPU architectures and their automotive/industrial safety applications.
• • IP and SoC level safety mechanisms
• • Knowledge of safety standards ISO26262 / IEC61508 and development lifecycles.
• • Experience with safety analysis techniques (FTA, DFA, FMEDA) and tools (Medini).
• • Hands-on experience in safety-focused product development (Safety Concepts).
• • Experience in safety audits, assessments and certification activities.
• • Ability to collaborate in cross-functional and global teams.

Aufgaben

• Define and develop functional and technical safety concepts for product architectures.
• Contribute to requirements capture using appropriate tools.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement safety concepts.
• Review IP, SoC and software safety work products to ISO26262/IEC61508.
• Perform safety analyses at IP and product levels (FTA, DFA, FMEDA).
• Support verification/validation strategies for safety.
• Prepare product for formal assessment and final certification.
• Assist customers with integration of NXP safety products.

Kenntnisse

MCU architectures

Functional safety

Safety analyses

ISO26262 knowledge

Certification experience

IP/SoC safety

Cross-functional teams

Medini tooling

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Medini

ELM7

Jobbeschreibung

Business Unit Description

NXP’s Functional Safety Competence Center empowers all business units to deliver functionally safe and standard compliant solutions, addressing current and emerging challenges in the automotive and industrial safety markets.

Business Unit Description

NXP’s Functional Safety Competence Center empowers all business units to deliver functionally safe and standard compliant solutions, addressing current and emerging challenges in the automotive and industrial safety markets.

Job Summary

This Safety Engineer position is part of the Functional Safety Competence Center and contributes to the development of safety-compliant semiconductor products. Key responsibilities are defining, analyzing, and validating safety concepts and architectures, including developing safety requirements and performing Safety Analyses. The Safety Engineer collaborates with implementation teams, systems, hardware, and software teams to deliver robust, certifiable solutions and to ensuring a Functional Safety compliant development process.

Candidates with strong experience in Microcontroller and Microprocessor architecture and Safety product development are preferred. Exceptions may be made for candidates having no prior safety experience but have strong background in chip design architecture and are motivated to learn Functional Safety.

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Electronics/Electrical/Computer Engineering or equivalent.
• 7–15 years of experience in semiconductor product development with exposure to functional safety.
• Strong understanding of microcontroller and microprocessor architectures and their application in automotive or industrial safety domains.
• Strong understanding of IP and SoC level Safety mechanisms.
• Understanding safety standards (ISO 26262 or IEC 61508) and associated development lifecycles and work products.
• Experience with safety analysis techniques such as FTA, DFA, and FMEDA and the related tools (e.g., Medini).
• Hands‑on experience in at least two safety compliant product development developing Functional Safety Concept and Technical Safety Concept.
• Experience in safety audits, assessments, and certification activities.
• Ability to collaborate effectively in cross-functional and global teams.

Preferred

• Experience in functional safety design and development within Tier 1 or Tier 2 automotive suppliers.
• Broad exposure to semiconductor product development (e.g., IP design, verification, DFT, physical implementation, tools, and methodologies).
• Familiarity with requirements management tools such as ELM7.
• Familiarity with software development compliant to ISO26262: Part 6.
• Familiarity with embedded system and software development.

Responsibilities

• Define and develop functional and technical safety concepts based on product architecture, technology, and intended functionality.
• Contribute to the capture and management of requirements using appropriate requirements management tools.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure consistent and effective implementation of safety concepts.
• Review and develop IP, SoC and Software related Safety work products compliant to ISO26262 or IEC61508
• Perform safety analyses at IP and product levels, including FTA, DFA, and FMEDA.
• Support the definition and review of safety verification and validation strategies.
• Perform IP, SoC, Software and System level safety management tasks compliant to ISO26262 or IEC61508
• Report on compliance status, gaps and mitigation actions.
• Prepare the product for formal assessment and ultimately final certification
• Contribute to Confirmation Measures and conduct internal reviews.
• Support customers in the integration and application of NXP safety products, including tailored solutions where required.

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