Job description

Our customer is the Software Division of a German Automotive OEM. Their mission is to make the automotive experience safer, more sustainable, more comfortable, more digital, and more fun. Soon, a team of 5,000 software developers and engineers, will be building the leading tech stack for the automotive industry and creating a unified software platform for over 10 million new vehicles per year.

We're looking for talented, digital minds like you to contribute to the System Base team, to specify and develop the standardized cockpit electronics and Infotainment software system for future vehicle E/E architectures across all Customer’s Group brands. The team is responsible for a broad field of base functions like Operating Systems (Linux, AUTOSAR, Android, QNX), Performance, Stability, Power Management, Virtualization, Tracing and Logging of the Cockpit Infotainment System.

For this particular position, we are looking for a "Safety Architect" who will be responsible to define and evaluate safety related features on Infotainment Computing platform. Setup safety processes with suppliers.

Your role

•         Analysis of system requirements or item defination of infotainment electronic control unit

•         Perform safety analysis to identify causes of failures and effects of faults  on system

•         Technical safety concept shall be defined at hardware level and software level of the system

•         Technical safety requirements shall be derived and allocated to hardware and software components

•         Specify interfaces between hardware and software

•         Derive safety mechanisms to detect, indicate and control faults of system

•         Define safety validation plan

•         Verify technical safety requirements and system architecture

•         Validation of safety goals at system level

Requirements – Must list (short, and real must, no order)

•         A degree of Bachelor’s in Engineering in ECE, EEE, CS or similar

•         10+ years of experience in system architecture and software engineering, in the area of infotainment systems

•         Has experience with HARA [Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment] to identify ASIL level of system components

•         Has experience with safety analysis using FMEA [Failure Mode Effects Analysis], FTA [Fault Tree Analysis]

•         Has experience with low level drivers porting and programming for different target platforms

•         Has experience with different operating systems like Linux, Android, Autosar

•         Hands on experience with ALM tools like Codebeamer to capture safety plan, technical safety specifications and test specifications

•         Hands on experience with design tools like EA to capture system architecture adhering to functional safety specifications

•         Hands on experience with Integration and testing at hardware software level, system level and vehicle level

•         Hands on experience in providing evidence of implementation of safety mecahnisms representing the performance, effectiveness and robustness of the system

•         Collaboration with software team and hardware team to develop safety compliant components of system

•         Fluent written and verbal communication skills in English

Good to have

• A degree of Master’s in Engineering in ECE, EEE, CS or similar

• Experience with development and testing of software features of infotainment ECU

• Experience with project management tools like JIRA

• Ideally process-know how within ASPICE and agile development methods

• Communication skills in German

Soft skills

• Structured and have a good sense of details

• Self driven and result oriented

• Creative in finding solutions on identified problems

• Great communicator and good corporation skills