Systems Safety Engineer in Auburn Hills, Michigan at FEV North America Inc

The System Safety Engineer ensures the safety and reliability of complex systems by identifying hazards, assessing risks, and implementing mitigation strategies throughout the system lifecycle.

• Align identified hazards and safety-significant functions to the implementing systems, subsystems, hardware, software, and communications.
• Develop and maintain traceability between hazards, safety requirements, design elements, mitigations, and verification evidence.
• Support identification and classification of Safety Significant Functions (SSF) and implementing items.
• Support development and management of Software Control Categories (SCC) and Software Criticality Indices (SwCI).
• Support maturation and maintenance of the FHA and Hazard Tracking System (HTS) as the vehicle design evolves.
• Evaluate system architecture and proposed design controls against identified hazards and required risk reduction.
• Work with third-party suppliers to review and assess safety-case evidence and determine whether supplier safety arguments, analyses, assumptions, and constraints adequately address the safety responsibilities of the supplied component or subsystem.
• Identify gaps between supplier safety evidence and vehicle-level safety requirements.

• 3-5 years of systems safety engineering experience required. Preferably 5 years or more.
• B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering.
• Knowledge and experience with the processes, work products, and analysis methods of MIL-STD-882E and/or ISO 26262.
• Working knowledge of DO-178C, DO-254, ARP4761 and ARP4754 desirable.
• Perform and support safety analysis at the system, subsystem, and component levels.
• Experience performing FMEA/FMECA; FMEDA experience preferred.
• US Citizen or Green Card Holder