Senior Embedded Safety Engineer — Automotive Systems

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is seeking a Staff Embedded Software Engineer specializing in Functional Safety to design platform-level software and safety components for embedded systems.

You will develop safety requirements, evaluate concepts, and collaborate across software, hardware, mechanical, and manufacturing teams to ensure compliance with standards and support production-ready products.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or related field.
• 5–7 years of professional experience focused on functional safety in automotive, aerospace, industrial, or equivalent sectors.
• Strong proficiency in C programming.
• Hands-on embedded software development with microcontroller-based systems.
• Experience with RTOS-based development.
• Experience with multi-threaded and multi-core programming.
• Experience developing systems in accordance with ISO 26262:2018, particularly Parts 5 and 11, or IEC 61508, particularly Parts 1, 2, and 3.
• Practical experience with safety requirements, technical safety concepts, FMEDA, FTA, and DFA.

Responsibilities

• Implement platform-level embedded software and functional safety components.
• Design and implement technical safety requirements at the software level.
• Represent functional safety in cross-functional discussions with software, hardware, mechanical, systems, and manufacturing teams.
• Evaluate safety requirements, technical safety concepts, FMEDA, FTA, and DFA against functional safety objectives.
• Develop software for microcontrollers using C and real-time operating systems.
• Design and develop multi-threaded and multi-core embedded software.
• Develop verification and validation methods for software safety requirements.
• Write test procedures and support testing of hardware subsystems and safety mechanisms.
• Document safety requirements, analyses, architecture, implementation, verification, and validation activities for each subsystem.
• Collaborate effectively in a fast-paced development environment.
• Help move concepts from the R&D phase into robust, production-ready products.

Skills

C programming

RTOS development

Multi-threaded software

Safety analysis

FMEDA/FTA/DFA

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/EE/Software Eng

Job description

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is seeking a Staff Embedded Software Engineer specializing in Functional Safety to design platform-level software and safety components for embedded systems.

You will develop safety requirements, evaluate concepts, and collaborate across software, hardware, mechanical, and manufacturing teams to ensure compliance with standards and support production-ready products.