Functional Safety V & V Senior Engineer

What youll do...

You will assist teams in the development and execution of functional safety V&V strategies and their work products to develop a comprehensive Safety Case.

You will work with Ford Connected Vehicle Software and Product Data Integrity and supplier engineering teams to identify safety related process and work product gaps and recommend best practice solutions.

You will develop a FuSa V&V capability maturity plan working with engineering stakeholders.

You will report to the Director of the Office of Functional Safety Assurance (OFSA).

We have two roles within this posting.

Key difference with Role 1: Focus on AI tools and software

Key difference with Role 2: Focus on verification and validation plans methods tools and results.

Youll have...

• FuSa Technical Leadership:Apply demonstrate and champion best in class methods tools practices to ensure embedded software achieves safety.
• FuSa Software V&V Health Dashboard Ownership: Lead the development of the FuSa Software Health Dashboard for the enterprise including its metrics and criteria for maturity. Develop AI enhanced tracking and analytic tools to determine status and priority actions.
• Cross-functional collaboration:Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including product engineering program management validation and verification software hardware design integration quality and architecture to drive maturity of enterprise FuSa Health metrics.
• FuSa Software related escapes: Apply system engineering risk analysis trouble shooting and root cause analysis methods to find software related issues and close the loop to process methods and tools gaps.
• Alignment of FuSa and Quality Assurance:Align and exploit synergies with SQA where this helps drive FuSa maturity.
• Continuous improvement:Drive continuous improvement initiatives to optimize software development and deployment processes tools and methodologies enhancing effectiveness.
• Communication: Provide consistent health status insights risks and opportunities to executive leadership and stakeholders.

Youll have...

• Education:Bachelors degree in Software Engineering Computer Science Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering or a related field.
• Experience:Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience in embedded automotive safety software verification.
• Technical expertise:Demonstrable deep understanding of ISO-26262 Part 6 e.g. software requirements analysis decomposition allocation verification. Software architectural design safety analysis safety mechanism design and implementation software unit test integration and verification FFI DFA software design practices to ensure safety software structural design and verification the inter-relationship between software hardware and systems engineering as it relates to the safety lifecycle. Use of AI in embedded software development and verification.
• Experienced with tools commonly used in safety software test including requirements analysis IDEs static code analysis code complexity metrics code and requirement coverage MISRA and Safe C rules checkers debuggers configuration management change control CI/CD pipelines regression test SIL HIL MIL. Model based software development. Development of software test strategies including fault injection.
• Working knowledge of ISO-26262 Part 34 Concept and Systems Engineering process tools methods including HARA HAZOP Functional Safety Concept. Able to understand the translation of systems work products into software.
• Communication & collaboration:Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to effectively engage with cross-functional teams external partners and stakeholders to drive successful feature system development projects.
• Leadership:Leadership abilities with a track record of initiative and problem solving delivering high-quality software that meets safety security and performance objectives.

Even better you may have...

• Masters degree in a technical or Management field to broaden scope of activities
• FuSa Professional Accreditation: UL TUV Exida or equivalent.
• Additional experience in Systems Hardware development for Safety applications in a complementary fashion
• Experience with software related standards development
• Strategic and systemic thinking: Demonstrated ability to comprehend end-to-end systems of systems apply systemic thinking critical thinking and strategic reasoning to identify opportunities rapidly understand complex concerns provide alternative solutions and drive strategy from concept through to production
• Adaptability: Comfort with ambiguity with a demonstrated ability to structure an approach to complex problems and drive clarity on solutions
• Innovation: Understand and drive innovation and change in processes engineering excellence quality and efficiency
• Continuous improvement mindset: A drive for a system approach to design and development coupled with a desire and curiosity to strive for exceptional delivery execution and continuous improvement

You may not check every box or your experience may look a little different from what weve outlined but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe or keep you close to home Will your career be a deep dive into what you love or a series of new teams and new skills Will you be a leader a changemaker a technical expert a culture builderor all of the above No matter what you choose we offer a work life that works for you including:

Immediate medical dental vision and prescription drug coverage

Flexible family care days paid parental leave new parent ramp-up programs subsidized back-up child care and more

Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement fertility treatments and more

Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases

Tuition assistance

Established and active employee resource groups

Paid time off for individual and team community service

A generous schedule of paid holidays including the week between Christmas and New Years Day

Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is a salary grade 8.

For more information on salary and benefits click here: sponsorship is NOT available for this position.

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