Principal Hardware & IC Functional Safety Architect

NXP Semiconductors; Toulouse; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

NXP Semiconductors in Toulouse, France, seeks a Principal Hardware & IC Functional Safety Architect to define the safety architecture for analog, mixed-signal, and power semiconductors. You will balance safety integrity with performance and cost across automotive, industrial, and data-center applications.

Lead cross-functional teams in safety development, translate system needs to IC-level requirements, and drive safety analyses such as FMEDA, FMEA, FTA, and DFA to enable trusted, safe energy

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• Strong experience in semiconductor hardware architecture, IC design, and product development.
• In-depth knowledge of ISO 26262 and/or IEC 61508.
• Practical experience with hardware safety analysis techniques such as FMEDA, FMEA, FTA and DFA.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the hardware functional safety concept and architecture for safety-related IC developments.
• Translate system and application safety needs into IC-level safety requirements, safety mechanisms, and architectural concepts to achieve ASIL/SIL.
• Ensure consistency between safety requirements, product architecture, safety analyses, and assumptions of use.
• Identify opportunities for optimized and compact safety architectures while maintaining required safety integrity.
• Deliver Safety manual integration documentation and facilitate usage of the IC in safety related applications.
• Conduct hardware safety analyses, including FMEA, FMEDA, FTA, and DFA, and evaluate failure modes, diagnostic coverage, and residual risks.

Skills

Semiconductor HW architecture

IC design

ISO 26262 / IEC 61508

FMEDA / FMEA / FTA / DFA

Education

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or related

Job description

Principal Hardware & IC Functional Safety Architect Come and join NXP and our Functional Safety Competence Centre as we shape the next generation of intelligent energy solutions with Power & Energy business. NXP collaborates with global leaders to enable sustainable, autonomous, reliable, and safe energy solutions, leveraging decades of experience in innovative, robust, reliable, safe, and secure technologies. Our Power & Energy portfolio addresses energy management, power conversion, and energy storage, with applications extending from automotive and industrial systems to data centers, energy infrastructure, and robotics. Within this dynamic environment, you will play a key role in defining and driving the Functional Safety architecture of NXP’s future power and energy semiconductor Analog solutions.

Your Role

As a Hardware & IC Functional Safety Architect, you will be a recognized technical expert responsible for defining the functional safety architecture of analog, mixed-signal, and power semiconductor products. You will work across safety-related product developments, ensuring that hardware architectures, safety mechanisms, and associated safety analyses are appropriate to achieve the targeted ASIL and/or SIL according to ISO 26262 and IEC 61508. The role combines semiconductor expertise with functional safety system and hardware. You will translate application-level safety needs into robust and efficient IC-level safety concepts, balancing safety integrity, product performance, design complexity, silicon impact, and cost. The role addresses traditional automotive safety applications as well as an expanding range of Power & Energy applications, including automotive electrification, energy management, data-center power infrastructure, industrial automation, and robotics.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and drive the hardware functional safety concept and architecture for safety-related IC developments.
• Translate system and application safety needs into IC-level safety requirements, safety mechanisms, and architectural concepts to achieve the targeted ASIL/SIL.
• Ensure consistency between safety requirements, product architecture, safety mechanisms, safety analyses, and assumptions of use.
• Identify opportunities for optimized and compact safety architectures, avoiding unnecessary complexity while maintaining the required safety integrity.
• Deliver Safety manual integration documentation and facilitate usage of the IC in safety related applications.
• Conduct hardware safety analyses, including FMEA, FMEDA, FTA, and DFA.
• Evaluate hardware failure modes, diagnostic coverage, dependent failures, and residual risks.
• Demonstrate the relevant quantitative hardware architectural metrics objectives.
• Ensure that analysis results are fed back into architecture and design decisions.

Power & Energy Application Scope

• Power management and power distribution
• Data-center power and energy infrastructure
• Industrial power and automation systems
• Robotics and autonomous industrial equipment
• Other safety-related analog, mixed-signal, and power semiconductor applications

Collaboration

• Product, System Architects and Definition teams
• Hardware and IC Design teams
• Functional Safety Managers
• Verification and Validation teams
• Functional Safety assessors and auditors
• Application and system engineering teams
• Customers and ecosystem partners, where appropriate

Your Profile

• Master's degree or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Semiconductor Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Strong experience in semiconductor hardware architecture, IC design, product development.
• In-depth knowledge of ISO 26262 and/or IEC 61508.
• Practical experience with hardware safety analysis techniques such as FMEDA, FMEA, FTA and DFA.
• Understanding of requirements-driven semiconductor development and the relationship between system-level safety requirements and IC implementation.

Leadership Profile

• Technical leadership and architectural thinking
• Ability to challenge complex architectures constructively
• Excellent communication across engineering, management, customers, and safety assessors
• Ability to connect system safety needs with practical semiconductor implementation
• A pragmatic approach to achieving the required safety integrity with an optimized HW architecture

More information about NXP in France...

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