Sr. Staff System Safety/Functional Safety Engineer

System Safety; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company where innovation meets automotive safety! This role offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge functional safety architectures and collaborate with diverse teams to create advanced vehicle systems. You'll engage in deep technical analysis, develop safety designs, and maintain relationships with educational institutions and professional societies. If you're passionate about technology and eager to make a significant impact in the automotive industry, this is the perfect opportunity for you. Embrace the challenge and help shape the future of vehicle safety with your expertise and creativity!

Benefits

Comprehensive Health Insurance

Life and Disability Insurance

401K Plan

Paid Time Off (PTO)

Parental Leave

Company Paid Holidays

Qualifications

• Experience with functional safety standards and vehicle control systems.
• Strong analytical skills for reliability metrics and failure modes.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and evaluate safety architectures for automotive projects.
• Collaborate with teams to establish project goals related to system safety.

Skills

Functional Safety Analysis

System Safety Standards (ISO 26262, IEC 61508)

Vehicle Dynamics

Project Management

Reliability Metrics Analysis

Problem Resolution

Technical Presentation

Machine Learning Fundamentals

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

PhD

Tools

Model-Based Design (MBD)

System Engineering Methodology

Job description

We welcome all curious engineers, solution-oriented thinkers, innovative persons who are looking for a place to do their best work on automotive projects!

What You Will Do

• Early-stage analysis and evaluations of functional safety architectures used in both conventional emergency shut down systems and highly available systems. Evaluate the suitability of the specific technology to meet customers and MediaTek objectives from an engineering standpoint. Work with all kinds of relevant suppliers to arrive at the information needed to make informed judgements.
• Participate with technical marketing departments, advanced technology management and development engineering to establish project goals and requirements related to system safety activities.
• Elaborate, design, and imagine conventional and innovative functional safety concepts for future generation product capabilities. This includes advanced deep technical analysis of reliability metrics, failure modes identification, diagnostic coverages techniques, dependent failure analysis and architectural system evaluations with the objective to determine the feasibility of different solutions to meet targets established by international standards and customer expectations.
• Capability to expose technical solutions to diverse auditors from peers, technical and business customers, and suppliers, and to upper MediaTek management; this also includes the capability to present strong argumentation to certifying agencies.
• Develop architectural designs at the whole scope of the application, including vehicle level features, vehicle architectures down to IPs micro architectures. Communicate and coordinate safety designs with IP teams. Consider tradeoffs between requirements, time to market, cost, and quality. Provide workload estimation and skills needed to accomplish the milestone.
• Maintain technical expertise in the field. Create and maintain relationships with educational institutions worldwide, professional societies (SAE, VDA, SIA, IEEE, etc.) and technical publications. Maintain awareness of applicable new technologies, processes, and trends.
• Function as a point of reference for functional/system safety expertise in a specific domain. Consult across multiple teams. Assist as requested with problem resolution, product design reviews, and technical strategy analysis and development.
• Understand complex control system concepts and contribute to the development and implementation of the product strategic direction in functional safety/system safety.
• Conduct tasks following applicable health, safety, quality, and environmental regulations (state/federal laws, ISO 9001, ISO 14000, etc.) as well as MediaTek policies and procedures.
• Intimate understanding of at least 2 or more Functional Safety/System Safety standards such as: ISO 26262, IEC 61508, ISO PAS 21448 SOTIF, UL 4600, IEC 61511, EN 5012x, ISO 10218, IEC 62061, IEC 60601.
• Demonstrate understanding of vehicle dynamics.
• You will report to MediaTek’s SoC Functional Safety Director.

The Essentials - Degrees

Bachelor’s, Master’s degree (desired), or PhD + significant experience.

Automotive Experience or equivalent

Significant experience on any of the following Vehicle level control functions such as, but not limited to: Engine, Power Train, Passive safety, Cybersecurity, ADAS, Autonomy, Infotainment, Lighting, Suspension, Braking and Steering Control Systems.

The Preferred - You may also have

• Intimate familiarity with structured/disciplined product development (V-model, DOD-STD-2167A, ISO 26262, IEC 61508, ISO PAS 21448 SOTIF, UL 4600, IEC 61511, EN 5012x, ISO 10218, IEC 62061, IEC 60601, etc.).
• 5 years of HW and/or SW/FW design experience + HW/SW architecture experience.
• 5 years of system engineering methodology experience + requirements management + system level architecture.
• 3 years of technical project management experience including functional safety (FSM).
• 3 years of functional safety analysis experience, ASIL decomposition and ASIL allocation.
• Significant experience with product certification, product assessments, and audits (automotive, health care, aviation, railway, process industries, robotics, etc.).
• Probability and statistics knowledge.
• Application level – vehicle level - use case analysis and definition.
• Exposure to any of the following associations: SAE, SIA, VDA, IEEE.
• 2 years of model based methodology experience – MBD, MBSE, MBSA.
• Understanding the intimate relationship between reliability, maintainability, availability and safety.
• Demonstrate and able to clearly explain the most popular safety mechanisms or diagnostics used in a computing unit, their effectiveness and purpose.
• Good machine learning fundamentals and in particular a clear understanding of its implications in functional safety.
• Use case exposure like: Electric Vehicles, ADAS, Hybrid Vehicles, Autonomous Vehicles, Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs), Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs), Highly Automated Vehicles, Grade of Automations GoA 3 or 4 Railway, Unmanned Vehicles Aerial, and Underwater Experience.

Standards

• Desirable: Member of any standard community.
• ISO 26262 (Automotive).
• IEC 61508 (Mother Standard – Functional Safety).
• ISO PAS 21448 (SOTIF).
• UL 4600 (Safety - Evaluation of Autonomous Products).
• IEC 61511 (Process Industries - SIS).
• EN 5012x (CENELEC - Railway).
• ISO 10218 (Robotics).
• IEC 62061 (Machinery).
• IEC 60601 (Medical devices - Healthcare).
• SAE J3016 (Automation Levels).
• SAE J2980 (ASIL Hazard Classification).
• ASPICE (Evaluation system/software development processes).
• MISRA (Programming language guidelines).

If you like innovation, have a customer-oriented mindset and are a technology change leader, then this is a place for you. Welcome to apply even if you do not meet 100% of the requirement in the job description. We value more attitude than skills.

MediaTek Incorporated is a global fabless semiconductor company that enables nearly 2 billion connected devices a year. We are a market leader in developing innovative systems-on-chip (SoC) for automotive, mobile device, home entertainment, connectivity and IoT products. MediaTek is the number one Wi-Fi supplier across broadband, retail routers, consumer electronics devices and gaming, and its Wi-Fi 6 chipsets are powering the latest networking equipment for faster computing experiences.

Our dedication to innovation has positioned us as a driving market force in several key technology areas, including highly power-efficient mobile technologies, automotive solutions and a broad range of advanced multimedia products such as smartphones, tablets, digital televisions, 5G, Voice Assistant Devices (VAD) and wearables. MediaTek empowers and inspires people to expand their horizons and achieve their goals through smart technology, more easily and efficiently than ever before. We work with the brands you love to make great technology accessible to everyone, and it drives everything we do. Visit www.mediatek.com for more information.

Salary range: $180,000 - $250,000.

Employee may be eligible for performance bonus, short and long term incentive programs. Actual total compensation will be dependent upon the individual's skills, experience and qualifications. In addition, MediaTek provides a variety of benefits including comprehensive health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, company paid holidays, paid time off (PTO), parental leave, 401K and more.

MediaTek is an Equal Opportunity Employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity to all, regardless of age, ancestry, color, disability (mental and physical), exercising the right to family care and medical leave, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, political affiliation, race, religious creed, sex (includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and related medical conditions), and sexual orientation.