Senior Functional Safety Engineer

Job description

HireArt is seeking a Senior Functional Safety Engineer to lead FMEDA efforts across system, sub-system, board, and component levels. This role ensures strong diagnostic coverage and hardware reliability for advanced compute and sensor platforms.

In this role, you’ll collaborate with systems and design engineers to understand hardware requirements, validate diagnostic capabilities, and provide verification evidence. You’ll also develop and review test plans for functional and fault-injection testing in alignment with ISO 26262.

The ideal candidate has strong FMEDA experience, solid hardware fundamentals, and a working knowledge of ISO 26262. You collaborate well across engineering teams and take ownership of diagnostic coverage and safety compliance.

As a Senior Functional Safety Engineer, you'll :

• Lead and participate in quantitative and qualitative functional safety analyses, including system- and board-level FMEDA.
• Review vendor documentation for components, boards, and safety manuals to identify diagnostic capabilities for complex SoCs and microprocessors.
• Partner with firmware engineers to enable diagnostics and collaborate with V&V teams to confirm diagnostic performance.
• Work closely with Test and Test Infrastructure teams to guide verification efforts and strengthen diagnostic verification.
• Develop new hardware and firmware requirements to improve diagnostic coverage across safety-critical systems.
• Define and support fault-injection testing activities to ensure compliance with ISO 26262 : 2018.

Requirements

Bonus Qualifications :

Benefits :

Commitment : This is a full-time, ongoing contract position staffed via HireArt. This role is hybrid and requires 3-4 days per week onsite, and is available to candidates local to the Foster City, CA area.

HireArt values diversity and is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. Unfortunately, we are not able to sponsor visas or employ corp-to-corp.