Senior Functional Safety Leader — Hybrid Hardware

Cisco; Ann Arbor (MI); Hybrid; USD 139,000 - 201,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco’s Common Hardware Group in Ann Arbor is seeking a senior functional safety engineer to lead hardware safety activities from architecture through certification and production release. You will collaborate with hardware, embedded, software, mechanical, and test teams to ensure safety compliance and robust designs.

This hybrid role requires a degree in EE/CE and 6–8+ years of relevant experience, with strong knowledge of safety analysis methods such as FMEA, FMEDA, FTA, and HARA.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering and 8+ years of experience, or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering and 6+ years of experience, or PhD in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering + 3 years in system level development.
• Experience leading functional safety planning and execution for hardware, semiconductor, embedded, power, or similar safety-critical systems.
• Experience developing and executing functional safety management plans.
• Experience applying safety analysis methods such as FMEA, FMEDA, FTA, DFA, HARA, dependent failure analysis, fault injection planning, or reliability assessment.

Responsibilities

• Lead Cisco's development of functional safety processes, from early architecture through certification and production release.
• Develop and execute a functional safety management plan to ensure compliance with functional safety requirements applicable to our hardware platform.
• Partner with hardware, embedded, software, mechanical, thermal, and test engineering teams, as well as supply chain, manufacturing, quality, and customer support teams to ensure success.

Skills

Functional safety leadership

Functional safety planning

Safety analysis methods (FMEA, FMEDA,

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering

Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering

PhD in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering

Job description

Cisco’s Common Hardware Group in Ann Arbor is seeking a senior functional safety engineer to lead hardware safety activities from architecture through certification and production release. You will collaborate with hardware, embedded, software, mechanical, and test teams to ensure safety compliance and robust designs.

This hybrid role requires a degree in EE/CE and 6–8+ years of relevant experience, with strong knowledge of safety analysis methods such as FMEA, FMEDA, FTA, and HARA.