Hardware Functional Safety Lead

Stellantis NV; Auburn (AL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Stellantis is seeking an experienced Hardware Functional Safety Lead Engineer to guide the development of safety-compliant ECU hardware platforms for SDV strategies. You will lead safety activities from concept to production, collaborating with system architects, semiconductors, software, cybersecurity, validation, and safety teams to ensure robust ECUs across vehicle platforms.

The role requires deep expertise in automotive hardware design, safety analysis, and safety case development, with a

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or equivalent.
• 8+ years of experience in ECU hardware design, electronic architectures, or semiconductor-based system development.
• Strong understanding of ISO 26262, especially Part 4, 5, 6, 8.
• Experience with automotive microcontrollers, SoCs, PMICs, memories, and comms interfaces in safety-critical ECUs.
• Fluent in English.

Responsibilities

• Lead Hardware Functional Safety activities in accordance with ISO 26262 Part 5 throughout the product lifecycle.
• Define and review Hardware Safety Concepts (HSC) and derive hardware safety requirements.
• Drive development of safety-compliant ECU hardware architectures for ASIL A–D systems.
• Support Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment (HARA) and allocation of safety goals to hardware elements.
• Lead hardware safety architecture development for ECUs, domain controllers, and compute platforms.
• Review schematic designs, power/clock architectures, reset strategies, watchdogs, and safety monitoring mechanisms.
• Mentor Hardware Functional Safety Engineers and establish best practices.

Skills

Fluent English

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Leadership/mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical or Electronics Engineering

Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

Tools

ISO 26262

Job description

Functional Safety Hardware Lead Engineer (#EHE)

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Take advantage of a rare opportunity to lead the development of next-generation automotive electronic hardware platforms supporting Stellantis' Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) strategy. We are seeking an experienced Hardware Functional Safety Lead Engineer to drive the development of safety-compliant ECU hardware architectures across vehicle platforms and domains.

As a Functional Safety Hardware Lead at PDT/EHE, you will lead hardware functional safety activities from concept through production, ensuring compliance with ISO 26262 and Stellantis engineering processes. You will work closely with system architects, hardware designers, semiconductor suppliers, software teams, cybersecurity engineers, validation teams, and safety managers to develop robust, safety-compliant electronic control units (ECUs) and compute platforms.

The role requires deep expertise in automotive hardware design, safety analysis, semiconductor technologies, hardware architecture, reliability engineering, and safety case development. The successful candidate will be a recognized technical leader capable of influencing global vehicle programs and mentoring safety engineers across regions.

Responsibilities:

• Lead Hardware Functional Safety activities in accordance with ISO 26262 Part 5 throughout the product lifecycle.
• Define and review Hardware Safety Concepts (HSC) and derive hardware technical safety requirements.
• Drive development of safety-compliant ECU hardware architectures for ASIL A, B, C, and D systems.
• Support Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment (HARA) and allocation of safety goals to hardware elements.
• Lead and Review FMEDA , DFA, FTA, Hardware architectural evaluations safety analysis
• Ensure traceability from safety goals through hardware requirements and verification activities.
• Lead hardware safety architecture development for ECUs, domain controllers, zonal controllers, gateways, body controllers, and high-performance compute platforms.
• Review schematic designs, power architectures, clock architectures, reset strategies, watchdog implementations, and safety monitoring mechanisms.
• Evaluate fault-tolerant hardware architectures
• Support semiconductor selection and safety evaluation of MCUs, SoCs, PMICs, memories, and communication devices.
• Ensure timely closure of safety issues, risks, assumptions, and deviations.
• Review hardware verification reports, test coverage, and safety evidence.
• Mentor and coach Hardware Functional Safety Engineers.
• Establish best practices, methods, templates, and lessons learned.
• Drive continuous improvement in hardware safety processes and engineering capability development.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or equivalent.
• A minimum 8 years of experience in ECU hardware design, electronic architectures, or semiconductor-based system development.
• Strong understanding of ISO 26262, especially: Part 4, 5,6, 8
• Good knowledge of hardware reliability and safety engineering principles.
• Experience working with automotive microcontrollers, SoCs, PMICs, memories, and communication interfaces, developing safety-compliant automotive ECUs.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Fluent in English.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Functional Safety, or related field.
• Experience with Zonal, HPC and Centralized EE Architectures
• Good Understanding of semiconductor functional safety standards: ISO 26262 Semiconductor Guidelines, IEC 61508
• Familiarity with ASPICE processes.