Staff Functional Safety Engineer - Automotive

Synopsys India Pvt Ltd; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Synopsys India Pvt Ltd is seeking a Staff FuSa Engineer to own ISO 26262 compliance for automotive IP across the lifecycle. You will develop safety artifacts, collaborate with global teams, and engage with customers to address safety, quality, and reliability requirements.

The role emphasizes building automation tools, leading safety reviews, and advancing safety practices across Synopsys IP teams. Senior-level responsibilities include shaping safety infrastructure for automotive IP.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering with 8+ years of experience.
• Formal ISO 26262 training and hardware development experience.
• Experience qualifying systems to ISO 26262 ASIL D.
• Proficiency with FMEDA, FTA, DFMEA, and Safety Concepts.
• Familiarity with Verilog, VHDL, or SystemVerilog.

Responsibilities

• Own functional safety compliance for DesignWare IP products to ISO 26262.
• Develop and review ISO 26262 work products such as Technical Safety Concepts, FMEDA, FTA, DFMEA, Safety Cases.
• Collaborate with global teams to integrate functional safety requirements into IP design, verification, and release processes.
• Engage with automotive customers to address functional safety, quality, and reliability requirements, providing technical guidance and compliance documentation.
• Build automation scripts to streamline safety analyses and improve workflow efficiency.
• Lead and participate in functional safety reviews, audits, and assessments, delivering clear reports and actionable recommendations.
• Maintain, refine, and enhance functional safety methods, templates, and processes.

Skills

Functional safety

ISO 26262

Python scripting

Verilog/SystemVerilog

IP/SoC design

Education

Electrical Engineering (B.E./B.Tech)

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

FMEDA

FTA

DFMEA

Job description

General Information

Staff Engineer - FuSA General Information Job Title Staff Engineer - FuSA Job ID 18421 Country India City Bengaluru Date Posted 19-Aug-2026 Job Category Engineering Job Subcategory ASIC Digital Design Hire Type Employee Remote Eligible No Descriptions & Requirements

Job Description and Requirements

Staff FuSa Engineer We Are Synopsys is the leader in engineering solutions from silicon to systems, enabling customers to rapidly innovate AI-powered products. We deliver industry-leading silicon design, IP, simulation and analysis solutions, and design services. We partner closely with our customers across a wide range of industries to maximize their R&D capability and productivity, powering innovation today that ignites the ingenuity of tomorrow.

You Are You have spent years in the automotive safety world and you know that functional safety is not a checkbox exercise. It is the discipline that keeps systems from failing in ways that matter. You understand that ISO 26262 compliance starts long before the audit and that the difference between a solid safety case and a fragile one is usually in the rigor of the work three months earlier. You are comfortable reading through a Technical Safety Concept, spotting the gap in an FMEDA, or walking a design team through why their architecture creates a single point of failure they have not yet seen. You do not treat standards as obstacles. You treat them as frameworks that make better products possible, and you know how to translate safety requirements into engineering decisions that actually stick. Working across global teams does not intimidate you. Neither does sitting with a customer who has hard questions about ASIL D compliance and expects answers that hold up under scrutiny. You bring structure to ambiguity, you build tools when the manual process does not scale, and you care about getting it right because you know what is at stake when safety critical systems go into production. At Synopsys, you will work on automotive IP that powers the next generation of self-driving cars, ADAS systems, and smart vehicles. The standards are real, the customers are demanding, and the work you do will directly affect how safe those systems are.

What You'll Be Doing

Own functional safety compliance for automotive DesignWare IP products, ensuring conformance to ISO 26262 across the full development lifecycle

Develop and review ISO 26262 work products including Technical Safety Concepts, FMEDA, FTA, DFMEA, DFA, Safety Plans, and Safety Cases for digital IP at ASIL levels up to ASIL D

Collaborate with global product development teams to integrate functional safety requirements into IP design, verification, and release processes

Engage directly with automotive customers to address functional safety, quality, and reliability requirements, providing technical guidance and compliance documentation

Build automation scripts and tools to streamline safety analyses, improve consistency, and scale functional safety workflows across multiple IP projects

Lead and participate in functional safety reviews, audits, and assessments, delivering clear reports and actionable recommendations to internal and external stakeholders

Maintain, refine, and enhance functional safety methods, templates, and processes to keep pace with evolving automotive standards and customer expectations

The Impact You Will Have

Enable Synopsys automotive IP to meet the safety and reliability standards that OEMs and Tier 1s depend on for next-generation vehicle platforms

Reduce time to compliance for new IP releases by building reusable safety artifacts, automation, and repeatable workflows that scale across product lines

Strengthen customer confidence in Synopsys IP by delivering rigorous, audit-ready safety documentation and responsive technical support during their safety assessments

Influence IP architecture and design decisions early, catching safety risks before they become costly redesigns or certification blockers

Advance the maturity of functional safety practices across Synopsys IP teams, raising the bar for how safety is integrated into silicon development

Support the deployment of safer autonomous and ADAS systems by ensuring the IP inside them has been developed to the highest functional safety standards

Build tools and methods that make safety analysis faster, more accurate, and less dependent on manual effort, freeing engineers to focus on higher-value work

What You'll Need

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering with 8+ years of relevant experience, or Master's degree with 7+ years

Formal training in ISO 26202, with demonstrated experience applying it to hardware development in safety critical applications

Hands-on experience qualifying systems to ISO 26262 ASIL levels, including ASIL D, with a solid understanding of hardware and software functional safety lifecycles

Proficiency in creating and reviewing ISO 26262 work products such as FMEDA, FTA, DFMEA, Technical Safety Concepts, and Safety Cases

Understanding of semiconductor development flows and experience with digital design at the IP or SoC level

Experience working on ISO 26262 Part 5 (hardware level) is a strong plus

Familiarity with hardware description languages (Verilog, VHDL, or SystemVerilog) is an advantage

Who You Are

You can walk into a design review, spot a safety gap in the architecture, and explain the risk in terms the team understands without derailing the conversation

You are comfortable building scripts in Python, Perl, or similar languages to automate repetitive safety analysis tasks and improve workflow efficiency

You know how to work with customers who have deep expertise in automotive safety and you hold your own in technical discussions about failure modes, diagnostic coverage, and safety mechanisms

You bring structure to ambiguous projects, you create plans that keep cross-functional teams aligned, and you follow through without needing constant oversight

You understand that functional safety is a team sport, and you know how to influence engineers, product managers, and customers without formal authority

You stay current with automotive reliability standards like AEC Q100 and quality frameworks like ISO 9001 or IATF 16949, and you see how they connect to functional safety work

The Team You'll Be Part Of

You will join the Automotive Functional Safety team within the Silicon IP business unit, working closely with DesignWare IP development teams across digital interfaces, processors, memory, and analog IP. The team operates globally, collaborating with engineers in the US, Europe, and Asia, and engages directly with automotive customers including OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers. Your work will span multiple IP product lines, and you will contribute to building the safety infrastructure that enables Synopsys IP to meet the rigorous demands of the automotive market.

Rewards and Benefits

We offer a comprehensive range of health, wellness, and financial benefits to cater to your needs. Our total rewards include both monetary and non-monetary offerings. Your recruiter will provide more details about the salary range and benefits during the hiring process. At Synopsys, we want talented people of every background to feel valued and supported to do their best work. Synopsys considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, military veteran status, or disability.

Experience Level Senior Level