Hybrid Hardware Engineer – ECU Safety Analysis

at General Motors

• Job title: Hardware Engineer – ECU Safety Analysis
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior, Mid level
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Warren, United States

About the role

• ECU Hardware Safety Analysis Engineer ensuring functional safety of inhouse developed electronic control units at GM. Performing circuit level safety analysis and supporting System Safety development.

Responsibilities

• Perform ECU circuit level safety analysis, hazard identification and risk mitigations using qualitative and quantitative methods on a multitude of ECUs.
• Support ECU Safety strategy development and deploy safety strategies that balance overall System Safety with feature availability & performance.
• Perform detailed ECU circuit level safety analysis using various software analysis & documentation tools in the following areas: DFMEA (Design Failure Mode Effects Analysis), FIT (Failures In Time), FMEDA (Failure Modes, Effects and Diagnostic Analysis), FTA (Fault Tree Analysis).
• Drive ECU, sub-component and/or circuit level design modifications determined necessary from the safety analysis work performed.
• Support development of new and/or revise existing technical safety related requirements for ECU CTRS (Component Technical Requirements Specification).
• Actively lead, participate and contribute in System Safety GSSLT (Global Subsystem Leadership Team), ECU HW Change Control Board and ECU safety analysis Peer Review forums.
• Stay abreast of new technologies and safety analysis techniques.

Requirements

• 2+ years engineering experience in product development with safety critical systems, ECUs or electronic circuit safety analysis.
• Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, or another related Engineering degree.
• Electronic Circuit and/or Software design, analysis, development, validation experience.
• Deep knowledge of safety critical embedded controls with at least one automotive subsystem or experience with a complex safety system in other industries.
• Good knowledge of Semiconductor physics, structures, fundamentals, models and failure mechanisms.
• Demonstrated leadership and project management of complex technical projects.
• Ability to provide technical leadership and mentorship to diverse global teams.
• In-depth familiarity with ISO 26262 or other functional safety standards such as IEC 61508, IEC 62304, or DO-178C.

Benefits

• From day one, we're looking out for your well-being–at work and at home–so you can focus on realizing your ambitions.