Staff Functional Safety Engineer, Software
Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies · Posted Nov 9, 2026
- Irvine, California, United States
- Full-time · Mid
- 6+ years
Perform functional safety analysis of internally designed application and platform software, create safety requirements, and lead safe software architecture development for automotive software.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to creation of technical safety requirements
- Derive software safety requirements for application and/or platform software
- Support implementation of software safety requirements at the application and/or platform software layer
- Support/derive safety analysis using FTA, SW-FMEA
- Lead the development of SW architecture for safety, including ASIL decomposition, freedom-from-interference analysis, dependent failure analysis
Requirements
- Bachelor's or equivalent in Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering or Computer Science
- Nice to have: model-based design using Simulink
- Nice to have: experience with propulsion & dynamics systems
- Nice to have: experience with body systems
- Nice to have: understanding of infotainment functions