Lead Engineer - Functional Safety for Power Electronics

Borgwarner Emission System; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

BorgWarner Emission System is seeking a Functional Safety Lead Engineer in Bengaluru to drive FS activities across transmission, inverter, and PE subsystems. You will lead a team, derive FS requirements, and collaborate with global experts to ensure safety compliance for electrification products.

The role requires 8–10 years of experience in functional safety, strong technical leadership, and hands-on experience with PE controllers, ECUs, and safety standards such as ISO26262.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in Functional Safety with at least 4 years in FS

Responsibilities

• Lead the Functional Safety team and provide technical guidance on ISO26262 (Systems, HW, SW and Production/Operation)
• Deriving Functional Safety Requirements for Transmission, Inverter, DC-DC converter, on board charger and other Power Electronics Sub-Systems
• Developing Technical Safety Concept, Technical Safety Requirements, Hardware Safety Requirements and Software Safety Requirements for Electrification products
• Developing Level 2 - Function Monitoring layer as per EGAS standards
• Support System Architect to develop System Architecture Design for Transmission, Inverter and other Power Electronics Sub-Systems
• Analyze Stakeholder Requirements (Customer and Internal)
• Interface with experts across the globe to evaluate and specify power electronics sub-systems requirements
• Support HW Architect to generate Product Definition Document (detailed product requirement)
• Support HW Architect to generate power electronics controllers design concept (Product Mechanization)
• Perform change management with the customer and internally (Requirements management in Polarion tool)
• Support Verification Leads to generate product functional test plan (safety compliance testing)

Skills

Functional Safety

ISO26262

Requirements elicitation

Power Electronics

Team Leadership

System Architecture

Microcontrollers

Polarion

Tools

Polarion

Job description

Functional Safety Lead Engineer

Location : Tech Center , Bangalore B.E/B. Tech/M.E/M. Tech in Power Electronics/Electronics/Communication/Electrical Experience: 8 to 10 years

Job Responsibility

• Lead the Functional Safety team by providing technical guidance on ISO26262 (Systems, HW , SW and Production/Operation Level) and by doing hands on.
• Deriving Functional Safety Requirements for Transmission, Inverter, DC-DC converter, on board charger and other Power Electronics Sub-Systems.
• Developing Technical Safety Concept, Technical Safety Requirements, Hardware Safety Requirements and Software Safety Requirements for Electrification product line.
• Developing Level 2 - Function Monitoring layer as per EGAS standards.
• Support System Architect to develop System Architecture Design for Transmission, Inverter and other Power Electronics Sub-Systems.
• Analyze Stakeholder Requirements (Customer and Internal).
• Interface with experts across the globe to evaluate and specify power electronics sub-systems requirements.
• Support HW Architect to generate Product Definition Document (detailed product requirement)
• Support HW Architect to generate power electronics controllers design concept (Product Mechanization).
• Perform change management with the customer and internally (Requirements management in Polarion tool)
• Support Verification Leads to generate product functional test plan (safety compliance testing)

Major Job Qualifications

• Experience: Deep Expertise in Functional Safety (Minimum 4 years of experience in FS, Developing TSC, FSR, TSR, HSR and SSR).
• ISO26262 external audit experience and gap analysis.
• Exemplary expertise in requirements elicitation.
• Vast experience in handling customers and leading teams.
• Fair knowledge and hands on experience in power electronics controllers used for battery management, inverter management, motor maneuvering & position sensing, on-board charger and DC-DC conversion.
• Good understanding of System Architecture involved in ECU.
• Good understanding of Electronics circuits in ECU for PE Sub-Systems.
• Good understanding of microcontroller, its on-chip peripherals and ASICs.
• Good understanding of real-time embedded system design.

Experience Level Senior Level