System Safety Engineer-Autonomous

Description

Hybrid:

This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to r eport to Warren Technical Center three times per week, at minimum or other frequency dictated by the business.

The Role:

Our team is looking for a creative and highly energetic Systems Safety Engineer who can lead System Safety work and craft our approach for future innovations! This work directly supports overall System Safety Case development critical in achieving GM’s path to Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions, and Zero Congestion! In this role you will apply systems level thinking and partner across the engineering organization to deploy System Safety solutions across our diverse and evolving technology set.

In this position you will be a fully qualified contributor who has thorough knowledge and understanding of all aspects of the department. You will possess a broad technical knowledge, training and understanding combined with creative and independent thinking and conceptual ability to related work performed within their department. This position will have a focus for executing System Safety development for Autonomous Vehicle Systems. In this role you will interact with the global product teams to ensure safety requirements are met according to the GM System Safety Process and industry standards. In this role you will lead System Safety level engineering across Autonomous Systems. You will be responsible to lead risk analyses, develop safe solutions, identity/mitigate potential safety issues, and assist program teams to develop Autonomous Systems free from unreasonable risk.

What You’ll Do (Responsibilities)

• Develop safety requirements for Autonomous Systems

• Decompose the top-level system functions, and behaviors into a set of safety requirements that detail expected end-to-end system behavior to implement a holistic safety strategy.

• Employ varied analysis techniques including hazard analysis, fault tree analysis, interface analysis, FMEA, software safety analysis, as applicable

• Establish safety requirements traceability to design and validation activities, partnering with engineering teams though the product development life cycle

• Collaborate with product engineering, development, verification, and validation teams to ensure consistent and sufficient safety strategy implementation

• Guide development of external suppliers to facilitate timely delivery of safety critical system content

• Stay abreast of new technology and safety analysis techniques

• Mentor organizational partners on safety critical system and process-specific knowledge, working with Senior System Safety engineer as needed.

Additional Description

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, or another related Engineering degree

• 5 + years of post-graduation engineering experience in engineering product development

• Understanding of vehicle electronic systems and features or experience with complex systems in other industries

• Experience working with embedded control systems in automotive or similar industry: Software and hardware release/development/ calibration/validation

• Support the System Safety Process Statement of Requirements (SOR) and the Development Interface Agreement with the supplier.

• Ability to collaborate with diverse teams globally

What Will Give You A Competitive Edge ( Preferred Qualifications)

• Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, or another related Engineering degree

• Engineering experience in product development with safety critical systems

• Familiarity with ISO 26262 or other functional safety standards such as IEC 61508, IEC 62304, or DO-178C

• Expertise with GM Autonomous systems and features

• Managed and/or created Autonomous vehicle safety case for distributed systems

• Experience working with safety diagnostic monitors

• Good understanding of GM vehicle development process

• Software design, analysis, development, validation

About GM

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