Functional safety

Tata Technologies Ltd.; Pune District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Technologies Ltd. is seeking an experienced Lead Functional Safety Engineer in Pune to drive ISO 26262-based safety across the full product lifecycle. You will lead governance, safety analyses, and safety cases, coordinating among powertrain, ADAS, and system teams while mentoring engineers.

The role requires extensive automotive FS experience, strong stakeholder management, and deep knowledge of safety tooling. Join a global engineering leader in a pivotal safety leadership capacity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering or equivalent experience.
• Extensive automotive functional safety experience across lifecycles.
• Expert knowledge of ISO 26262 and safety management processes.
• Proven lead of complex functional safety workstreams across distributed teams.
• Experience developing and assuring safety requirements, SAFETY CASEs and analyses.
• Proficiency with DOORS, Polarion, Codebeamer, Medini Analyze or similar tools.
• Strong knowledge of powertrain safety, ADAS and cross-domain interfaces.
• Excellent stakeholder leadership and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the functional safety engineering across the product lifecycle.
• Govern Functional Safety Plans, milestones, reviews and evidence.
• Develop Safety Goals, HSAs, and SAFETY CASEs with traceability.
• Coordinate multi-team safety activities across OEMs and partners.
• Ensure safety requirements map to verification methods and tests.
• Mentor engineers and drive high-quality safety practices.

Skills

ISO 26262

FMEA

FTA

DFA

Safety analysis

HARA

Safety Case

Leadership

Stakeholder mgmt

Education

Engineering degree

Automotive engineering

Tools

DOORS

Polarion

Codebeamer

Medini Analyze

ANSYS

Job description

• Lead functional safety engineering across the complete product development lifecycle, establishing technical direction, plans, interfaces, deliverables, reviews, evidence and acceptance criteria required for compliant programmed delivery.
• Act as the lead functional safety engineer and subject matter expert, providing authoritative interpretation and proportionate application of ISO 26262 to customer programmed, products, platforms and distributed development responsibilities.
• Plan, coordinate and technically direct functional safety activities across customer, TTL, OEM, Tier-1 and specialist partner teams, ensuring clear ownership and consistent engineering quality.
• Develop, maintain and support governance of the Functional Safety Plan, including lifecycle activities, responsibilities, milestones, dependencies, reviews, evidence and completion status.
• Lead or assure Item Definition, Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment, ASIL classification, Safety Goals and Functional Safety Concept development.
• Lead or assure Technical Safety Concepts, functional and technical safety requirements, allocation to systems, hardware, software and external measures, and bidirectional traceability to verification evidence.
• Provide functional safety leadership within powertrain and propulsion system development, including torque generation and control, engine or e-drive management, transmission interfaces, energy management, start-stop, thermal protection, diagnostics, degradation and safe-state strategies as applicable.
• Assess cross-domain safety interactions between powertrain, braking, motion control, ADAS, vehicle supervisory control, body systems, E&E architecture, networks and external interfaces.
• Define and govern safety analyses including FMEA, FTA, DFA and dependent failure analysis, ensuring assumptions, failure modes, safety mechanisms and recommended actions are technically robust and resolved.
• Support system, hardware and software architecture development, including functional decomposition, independence, freedom from interference, redundancy, monitoring, fault handling and ASIL decomposition where appropriate.
• Develop and manage Development Interface Agreements and functional safety responsibilities across customer, Tata Technologies, OEMs, Tier-1 suppliers and third parties.
• Review and approve supplier safety plans, concepts, analyses, requirements, architectural evidence, verification results and Safety Cases; identify gaps and drive corrective actions to closure.
• Lead functional safety reviews and technical decision forums with powertrain, systems, architecture, hardware, software, calibration, integration, validation, quality, cybersecurity and supplier stakeholders.
• Support confirmation reviews, functional safety audits and assessments, coordinating with internal or independent reviewers and ensuring findings are resolved with objective evidence.
• Maintain clear functional safety status reporting across work products, maturity, risks, assumptions, dependencies, open findings, supplier evidence and programmed gateways.
• Lead change-impact assessment for safety-related changes to requirements, architecture, hardware, software, calibration, interfaces, intended use or operating environment.
• Ensure safety requirements are linked to verification methods, test specifications, analyses and objective evidence, and that anomalies are assessed for functional safety impact.
• Develop, structure and assure complex nested Safety Cases across vehicle, powertrain system, subsystem, hardware, software and supplier levels, maintaining clear argumentation, evidence, assumptions and traceability.
• Support integration, calibration, verification, vehicle build, launch and production-readiness activities by resolving safety concerns, confirming release constraints and maintaining clear safety acceptance status.
• Mentor functional safety engineers and wider engineering teams, building capability and promoting consistent, pragmatic and high-quality safety engineering practice.

Knowledge / Experience

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical, electronic, automotive, control systems, software, mechatronics or a related engineering discipline, or an equivalent level of relevant experience.
• Extensive automotive functional safety experience, with demonstrable responsibility for leading safety engineering activities across complete vehicle, system, hardware or software development lifecycles.
• Expert working knowledge of ISO 26262, including concept, system, hardware, software, supporting processes, production considerations, safety management and confirmation measures.
• Proven experience leading complex functional safety workstreams and coordinating delivery across distributed engineering organizations.
• Experience developing and assuring Item Definitions, HARA, Safety Goals, Functional Safety Concepts, Technical Safety Concepts, safety requirements and Safety Cases.
• Strong practical capability in safety analysis methods including FMEA, FTA, DFA and dependent failure analysis.
• Experience of functional safety planning, technical governance, review, audit or assessment support, compliance tracking and programmed-gateway reporting.
• Experience managing safety interfaces and evidence across OEM, engineering service provider and Tier-1 supplier boundaries.
• Strong understanding of automotive E&E architecture, embedded systems, hardware-software interfaces, diagnostics, communications, fault handling and vehicle operating states.
• Demonstrable ability to review complex technical evidence, identify safety gaps, make sound risk-based recommendations and drive corrective action to closure.
• Strong stakeholder leadership, facilitation, technical writing, negotiation and customer communication skills, including the confidence to challenge constructively at senior level.
• Experience using requirements, lifecycle or safety-analysis toolsets such as DOORS, DOORS Next, Polarion, Codebeamer, Medini Analyze, Ansys or equivalent.
• Strong functional safety experience within the powertrain or propulsion domain, covering internal-combustion, hybrid or battery-electric applications.
• Knowledge of powertrain controls and interfaces such as torque management, engine or e-drive control, transmission, energy management, thermal protection, calibration, diagnostics, degradation and limp-home strategies.
• Experience developing and assuring complex nested Safety Cases across vehicle, system, subsystem, hardware, software and supplier levels.
• Experience within the commercial vehicle sector, including buses, trucks, coaches, special-purpose vehicles or stripped-chassis platforms.
• Experience of multi-party vehicle development involving OEMs, platform providers, body builders, Tier-1 suppliers and engineering service organizations.
• Experience in Chassis E&E and Motion Control systems or ADAS, particularly where these interact with powertrain or longitudinal vehicle control.
• Knowledge of Automotive SPICE and the integration of functional safety activities with systems, software and quality processes.
• Working knowledge of ISO/SAE 21434 and the management of functional safety and cybersecurity interactions.
• Experience supporting independent functional safety assessment, certification, homologation, launch readiness, start of production or field issue investigation.
• Recognized functional safety certification or qualification from TÜV, exida or an equivalent professional body is beneficial