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Functional Safety Lead Engineer

Job ID 2025-13639 Date posted Mar. 03, 2025 Location Austin, Texas Category Hardware Engineering Apply

Job Description:

Arm’s hardware is at the heart of the AI, computing, and connectivity revolution that continues to transform the way people live and businesses operate.

As part of our continued growth, we are looking to hire a passionate Staff Functional Safety Engineer. Based in our office in Austin, TX, you will be working on next generation IP products in close collaboration with colleagues at our offices around the world.

You will join an expert and motivated team responsible for developing the next generation of Automotive and Industrial IP products. This role coordinates functional safety activities within a project, developing the safety context, leading safety activities, and fostering safety culture while adhering to established methodologies. You will be responsible to act as liaison for the project to product management, quality management, and safety assessors.

Would you like to be in a creative, multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural environment, in a role with exciting responsibilities and an opportunity to make an impact on our industry? We would love to hear from you!

Responsibilities:

  • Coordinate functional safety activities within the project
  • Develop and maintain functional safety work products adhering to established methodologies
  • Lead safety analysis within the team and develop associated work products such as FMEA, FMEDA and DFA
  • Foster safety culture within the team as well as alignment, collaboration, and knowledge sharing with other project teams
  • Develop and deploy continual improvement initiatives to ensure functional safety practices are effective and efficient
  • Work with the product manager on establishing functional safety requirements for the product
  • Assist the project manager on functional safety activity planning, resource estimation and safety training
  • Act as a technical liaison between the engineering team and safety assessor during functional safety evaluations

Education

  • BS in Electrical or Computer engineering or equivalent and 7+ years experience in VLSI hardware design, or
  • MS in Electrical or Computer engineering and 5+ years experience in VLSI hardware design

Required Skills and Experience :

  • Proficiency in hardware design and development, HDL languages, i.e. Verilog, VHDL and programming languages, i.e. C, C++, Perl, Python
  • Experience working on functional safety-related development projects applying industry recognized standards, e.g., ISO 26262, IEC 61508
  • Extensive knowledge and application of Safety Analysis methodologies using industry-standard tools: FMEA, FMEDA, DFA, FTA, SPFM/LFM, and PMHF
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience :

  • Certification and/or expertise in one or more international standards such as ISO 26262 or IEC 61508
  • Exposure to projects developing safety critical automotive and industrial solutions for AD, ADAS, IVI, Digital Cockpit
  • Experience with authoring and reviewing technical documentation
  • Experience with fault simulation and analysis

In Return:

With offices around the world, Arm is a diverse organization of dedicated, creative, and very hardworking engineers. By enabling a multifaceted, inclusive, meritocratic, and open workplace, where everyone can grow and succeed, we encourage our people to share their unrivaled contributions to Arm's success in the global marketplace.

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Salary Range:

$185,491-$250,958 per year

We value people as individuals and our dedication is to reward people competitively and equitably for the work they do and the skills and experience they bring to Arm. Salary is only one component of Arm's offering. The total reward package will be shared with candidates during the recruitment and selection process.

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Hybrid Working at Arm

Arm’s approach to hybrid working is designed to create a working environment that supports both high performance and personal wellbeing. We believe in bringing people together face to face to enable us to work at pace, whilst recognizing the value of flexibility. Within that framework, we empower groups/teams to determine their own hybrid working patterns, depending on the work and the team’s needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases, the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and where this is the case, we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you.

Equal Opportunities at Arm

Arm is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and colleagues. We are a diverse organization of dedicated and innovative individuals, and don’t discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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