Renesas Electronics
Functional Safety Architect (f/m/d)
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Job Description
Role Overview
The Functional Safety Architect is a member of the systems and functional safety team with a specialization in functional safety architectures and definitions. This role is instrumental in driving standardization across the SAP product line, with the objective of accelerating functional safety definitions.
The functional safety architect supports, mentors, and guides the functional safety managers on individual projects, driving towards common definitions and achieving balance between features and cost. In order to achieve this, the functional safety architect must understand the system level functional safety requirements and develop strong relationships with counterparts in MCU and SoC teams.
Principal Accountabilities
- Standardisation of FuSa Requirement Definitions: Focus on achieving safety goals while minimizing design area and cost.
- Review and Proposal of FuSa Definitions: Review PMIC FuSa definitions vs industry state of the art and propose standard FuSa definitions for PMIC building blocks.
- Requirements Definition: Define requirements based on inputs from FuSa standards, customers, and systems architects.
- Collaboration with Architects: Work with chip and system architects to propose an implementation architecture.
- Safety Assessor Interface: Interface with safety assessors to get pre-approval for standard FuSa blocks.
- Library Creation: Create a library of functional safety definitions targeting a family concept with similar "look and feel".
- Project Support: Work with FuSa manager for each project to ensure standardized definitions are being put in place.
- System Level FuSa Concept: Develop a system level FuSa concept for MCU/SoC systems and align with SoC/MCU FuSa team on requirements and implementation.
- Customer Interaction: Understand system requirements, input those requirements to product definitions, and interact with customers to understand specific customer needs as relating to FuSa.
- Advisor to Design Team: Advise the design team on how to implement safety features.
- Review and Validation: Review proposed implementations vs requirements, review simulation and validation results to ensure correct implementation, and focus on minimal design complexity and area while achieving safety goals.
- FuSa Tool Flow and Methodology: Drive SAP towards tool-based FuSa workflow and methodology, investigate AI-driven definition and documentation.
- Mentorship and Training: Mentor and advise product-level FuSa engineers and present training to customers and internal teams.
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Qualifications
- Education: BSc/Master’s in engineering or equivalent.
- Experience: 10+ years of relevant experience in product definition and functional safety, ideally for PMIC or other power ICs.
- Proven Track Record: Successful product definitions and product launches.
- Knowledge: Deep and comprehensive knowledge of safety and compliance standards (ISO 26262, AEC-Q100 etc.) and system-level power requirements, system level functional safety, and board-level integration challenges for MCU, MPU, and SoC systems.
- Assessment Process: Experience with Functional Safety assessment process.
- Tool Experience: Experience using or defining Functional Safety tool flows, using requirements management tools, and with Simplis or other modelling tools.
- Design Flow Knowledge: High-level knowledge of complete Mixed Signal design flow through to mass production.
- Leadership and Mentorship: Leadership in technical reviews and mentorship.
- Balance and Innovation: Ability to balance trade-offs between performance, power, area, and cost, and propose innovative solutions.
- Results-Oriented: Deliver on-time under tight schedules.
- Communication: Able to communicate with customers and stakeholders at an appropriate level.
- Teamwork: Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
- Travel: Available to travel for internal and customer meetings.
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Additional Information
Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’ As the industry’s leading expert in embedded processing with unmatched quality and system-level know-how, we have evolved to provide scalable and comprehensive semiconductor solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT industries based on the broadest product portfolio, including High Performance Computing, Embedded Processing, Analog & Connectivity, and Power.
With a diverse team of over 21,000 professionals in more than 30 countries, we continue to expand our boundaries to offer enhanced user experiences through digitalization and usher into a new era of innovation. We design and develop sustainable, power-efficient solutions today that help people and communities thrive tomorrow, ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’
At Renesas, you can:
- Launch and advance your career in technical and business roles across four Product Groups and various corporate functions.
- Make a real impact by developing innovative products and solutions to meet our global customers' evolving needs and help make people’s lives easier, safe, and secure.
- Maximize your performance and wellbeing in our flexible and inclusive work environment. Our people-first culture and global support system, including the remote work option and Employee Resource Groups, will help you excel from the first day.
- Are you ready to own your success and make your mark?
Join Renesas. Let’s Shape the Future together.
Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to supporting diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. For more information, please read our Diversity & Inclusion Statement.
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