American Axle & Manufacturing has openings for Senior Functional Safety Engineers - Powertrain, at its ATDC facility in Detroit, Michigan. Job duties include:
1. Perform and participate in planning and execution of functional safety activities throughout the product engineering development lifecycle of projects in the automotive electric powertrain market.
2. Conduct safety assessment and conformance support to product engineering teams participating in execution of AAM’s functional safety lifecycle.
3. Elicit and define functional safety requirements, technical safety requirements, software and electrical hardware safety requirements and safety mechanisms for safety-critical automotive systems.
4. Perform system and subsystem-level functional safety analysis of safety critical automotive systems such as electric drive units, electric motor inverters and high-power electronics in accordance with ISO 26262-4:2018 ASIL C or ASIL D.
5. Facilitate development of Electrical level safety analysis of automotive high power electric powertrain systems such as electric drive units, electric motor inverters, electrical /electronic products in accordance with ISO 26262-5:2018 ASIL C or ASIL D using methods including FTA, FMEDA, and FMEA.
6. Facilitate development of software safety analysis for the implementation of automotive electric powertrain products such as inverter software architectures in accordance with ISO 26262-6:2018 ASIL C or ASIL D. Using methods such as FTA, FMEDA, FMEA and ETA.
Position requires: Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, electronic engineering, computer engineering, or related field, or foreign equivalent education, and 5 years’ post baccalaureate progressive experience working as an IT Analyst, Functional Safety Engineer, or other Automotive Functional Safety Engineering positions. 5 years’ experience is required in each of the following:
1. Performing system-level, electrical and software safety analysis of safety-critical automotive systems using the methods including FTA, FMEA, and FMEDA.
2. Eliciting and defining of functional safety requirements, technical safety requirements, electrical and software safety requirements for safety-critical automotive systems.
3. Facilitating development of automotive high power electrical and electronic products and implementation of ISO 26262 standards to ASIL C or ASIL D.
Experience may be obtained concurrently.
