Senior Functional Safety Engineer Embedded Systems Specialist II

Evoke HR Solutions Pvt. Ltd.; Chennai; On-site; INR 1,400,000 - 2,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Evoke HR Solutions Pvt. Ltd. in Chennai seeks a Senior Functional Safety Engineer with strong Automotive FS and ISO 26262 expertise. The role requires 8+ years in Functional Safety and overall 10–15 years experience, with a focus on E/E systems in automotive environments.

This position demands leadership in safety analyses, development of FSC/TSC, and collaboration with system, hardware, and software teams to ensure safety compliance across the product lifecycle.

Qualifications

• 10–15 years total experience with 8+ years in Functional Safety.
• Strong automotive experience and FS expertise required.
• Experience in ISO 26262 Part 2, 3 & 4 development.
• Experience performing HARA and deriving safety requirements.
• Experience with safety analyses (FMEA, FTA, FMEDA).
• Experience with automotive ECUs, components and safety-critical systems.

Responsibilities

• Drive and support functional safety activities throughout the product development lifecycle, ensuring ISO 26262 compliance.
• Develop and maintain functional safety management plans and processes for automotive E/E systems.
• Lead Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessments (HARA) to identify safety goals and ASILs.
• Define and develop Functional Safety Concepts (FSC) and Technical Safety Concepts (TSC).
• Derive and allocate functional and technical safety requirements to system and software architectures.
• Perform safety analyses such as FMEA, FTA, and FMEDA at various levels of abstraction.
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams (system, hardware, software, test) to implement and verify safety mechanisms.
• Support safety verification and validation activities to ensure achievement of safety goals and risk reduction.
• Contribute to safety cases and safety assessments to demonstrate functional safety compliance.

Skills

Communication skills

Problem solving

ISO 26262 experience

Hazard Analysis

Safety case development

Education

B.E / B.Tech / M.E / M.Tech

Tools

Medini

MagicDraw

Job description

Role & responsibilities

We are Hiring for Senior Role for our client in Chennai Location.

Hiring | Senior Functional Safety Engineer Embedded Systems Specialist II
We are looking for an experienced Senior Functional Safety Engineer with strong expertise in Automotive Functional Safety and ISO 26262.

Job Title: Embedded Systems Specialist II
Openings: 1
Qualification: B.E / B.Tech / M.E / M.Tech
Experience: 10 - 15 Years overall | 8+ Years in Functional Safety
Domain: Automotive / Embedded Systems
Notice Period : Immediate to 15 Days Notice Period

We are looking for a Senior Functional Safety engineer with a minimum of 8 years of experience in Functional Safety and having strong automotive experience.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Drive and support functional safety activities throughout the product development lifecycle, ensuring compliance with ISO 26262.
• Develop and maintain functional safety management plans and processes for automotive E/E systems.
• Lead Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessments (HARA) to identify safety goals and ASILs.
• Define and develop Functional Safety Concepts (FSC) and Technical Safety Concepts (TSC).
• Derive and allocate functional and technical safety requirements to system and software architectures.
• Perform safety analyses such as FMEA, FTA, and FMEDA at various levels of abstraction.
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams (system, hardware, software, test) to implement and verify safety mechanisms.
• Support safety verification and validation activities to ensure the achievement of safety goals and the sufficiency of risk-reducing measures.
• Contribute to safety cases and safety assessments to demonstrate functional safety compliance.

Preferred candidate profile

• Good communication skills
• Good problem-solving ability
• Proven experience working with ISO26262 Part 2, 3 & 4 development.
• Minimum 4 years experience working with the ISO 26262 product development lifecycle with focus on Parts 4, 5 & 6 development.
• Proven experience in performing HARA.
• Proven experience in deriving safety requirements
• Experience with modelling tools like Medini.
• Proven experience with developing ISO 26262 workproducts.
• Proven experience related to Automotive Embedded Software development.
• Proven experience in performing safety-oriented analysis such as software FTA, DFMEA and DFA.
• Experience in general automotive ECUs, components, features, and operations to work with safety critical systems.

Domain Knowledge

• ISO 26262 Parts 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9. Automotive domain experience preferred.

Additional Skills

• SysML knowledge and FMA expertise are value additions
• Knowledge on Functional Safety validations using HW or virtual will be an added advantage.

Qualification: B.E / B-Tech / M.E / M-Tech

Experience: 10 - 15 years overall with 8+ years in Functional Safety

Tools: Magic Draw, Medini