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 specialisation in functional safety architectures and definitions. This role is instrumental in driving standardisation 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
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Standardisation of Functional Safety Requirements:
- Focus on achieving safety goals while minimizing design area and cost.
- Review PMIC Functional Safety definitions vs. industry state of the art.
- Propose and document standard Functional Safety definitions for PMIC building blocks.
- Define requirements based on inputs from Functional Safety standards, customers, and systems architects.
- Work with chip and system architects to propose an implementation architecture.
- Interface with safety assessors to get pre-approval for standard Functional Safety blocks.
- Drive standard Functional Safety definitions for each PMIC block across all products.
- Create a library of functional safety definitions targeting a family concept with similar "look and feel."
- Work with the Functional Safety manager for each project to ensure standardized definitions are being put in place.
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System Level Functional Safety Concept:
- Alignment with SoC/MCU Functional Safety team on requirements and implementation.
- Understand system requirements and input those requirements to product definitions.
- Documentation of system-level Functional Safety concept for power.
- Customer interaction to understand specific customer needs as relating to Functional Safety.
- Advisor to design team on how to implement safety features.
- Review proposed implementations vs. requirements.
- Focus on minimal design complexity and area while achieving safety goals.
- Review simulation and validation results to ensure correct implementation.
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- Functional Safety Tool Flow and Methodology:
- Drive SAP towards a tool-based Functional Safety workflow and methodology.
- Investigate AI-driven definition and documentation.
- Mentor and advisor to product-level Functional Safety engineers.
- Presenting training to customers and internal teams.
Qualifications
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Education:
- BSc/Master’s in engineering or equivalent.
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Experience:
- 10+ years of relevant experience in product definition and functional safety, ideally for PMIC or other power ICs.
- Proven track record of successful product definitions and product launches.
- Deep and comprehensive knowledge of safety and compliance standards (ISO 26262, AEC-Q100, etc.).
- Strong understanding of system-level power requirements, system-level functional safety, and board-level integration challenges for MCU, MPU, and SoC systems.
- Experience with Functional Safety assessment process.
- Experience using or defining Functional Safety tool flows, using requirements management tools, and with Simplis or other modelling tools.
- High-level knowledge of the complete Mixed Signal design flow through to mass production.
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Skills:
- Leadership in technical reviews and mentorship.
- Ability to balance trade-offs between performance, power, area, and cost.
- Able to make significant contributions to projects, programs, and business initiatives with the ability to propose innovative solutions.
- Results-oriented and able to deliver on-time under tight schedule.
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
- Able to communicate with customers and stakeholders at an appropriate level.
Travel
Travel and customer interaction are necessary.
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.
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- Launch and advance your career in technical and business roles across four Product Groups and various corporate functions. You will have the opportunities to explore our hardware and software capabilities and try new things.
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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.
Employment Type: Regular (PERM)
Remote Work Available: No
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