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Senior Functional Safety Engineer

Job ID 2024-11643 Date posted Nov. 05, 2024 Location Manchester, United Kingdom Category Software Engineering Apply

Arm designs the technology that lies at the heart of advanced digital products, from wireless, networking and consumer entertainment solutions to imaging, automotive, security and storage devices. Arm’s comprehensive product range includes CPUs, graphics processors (GPUs), and image signal processors (ISPs).

The ISP group designs image processors and similar technology for markets including automotive, drones, teleconferencing and surveillance. Our intellectual property includes RTL, reference drivers, tools and libraries enabling our customers to build on top of our work to create new and innovative products.

Our design engineers need to constantly push the power, performance and area boundaries while generating designs that are robust, maintainable and provide the outstanding quality that our customers expect.

Job Overview:

As a Functional Safety Engineer, you will be part of a team developing ISP hardware and software targeted towards the automotive market.

Your role will involve leading the Functional Safety development of ISP products, providing the required support to our HW and SW design engineers.

Our team is based in the UK with the majority of engineers located in Manchester. We also have a presence in Cambridge.

Responsibilities:

  • Deliver the Functional Safety work products through all stages of the HW and SW life cycles to lead up to successful certification assessment.
  • Engage with the design and verification teams to successfully deliver safety architecture, safety analyses and verification strategy.
  • Monitor the progress of the safety activities and report to the product management team.
  • Plan, coordinate and supervise Functional Safety assessments and confirmation reviews driving open actions to successful closure.
  • Contribute towards definition and improvement of Functional Safety methodologies we use.

Required Skills and Experience :

  • Expertise with safety critical standards such as ISO 26262, IEC 61508 etc.
  • Expertise with safety requirements management, DFMEA (HW & SW), FTA, DFA, FMEDA.
  • Experience in working on safety certification for embedded applications.
  • Able to work with a high level of independence and as part of a team.
  • Able to communicate effectively in spoken and written English

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience :

  • Experience of image processing.
  • Experience of ASIC RTL design using Verilog, System Verilog or VHDL.
  • Programming language, such as 'C' or C++

In Return:

You will get to utilise your engineering skills to enable state of the art image processing for automotive use cases, where our successful ISPs improve both driver experience and the performance of computer vision applications.

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