At Synopsys, we’re at the heart of the innovations that change the way we work and play. Self-driving cars. Artificial Intelligence. The cloud. 5G. The Internet of Things. These breakthroughs are ushering in the Era of Smart Everything. And we’re powering it all with the world’s most advanced technologies for chip design and software security. If you share our passion for innovation, we want to meet you.

Our Silicon IP business is all about integrating more capabilities into an SoC—faster. We offer the world’s broadest portfolio of silicon IP—predesigned blocks of logic, memory, interfaces, analog, security, and embedded processors. All to help customers integrate more capabilities. Meet unique performance, power, and size requirements of their target applications. And get differentiated products to market quickly with reduced risk.

We're looking for Automotive Functional Safety Engineers to join our IP team.
Synopsys is seeking a Functional Safety Engineer whose primary mandate is to ensure that Synopsys Automotive IPs comply with ISO 26262 and related standards for automotive functional safety and reliability. This position will work globally with internal development teams and external customers to ensure conformance to related quality, functional safety, and automotive reliability requirements.
The Automotive Functional Safety Engineer is responsible for:

  • Work with internal development teams and automotive customers to ensure coordinated functional safety compliance
  • Work with product teams to evaluate customer requirements related to quality, functional safety, and automotive reliability
  • Execution of Work Products derived from those requirements at all product lifecycle levels (Concept, Architectural and HW levels)
  • Work closely with the Functional Safety and internal development teams on projects and task planning, progress tracking and reporting
  • Develop automation scripts for automotive safety analyses
  • Participate in quality and functional safety reviews and provide reports
  • Maintain and enhance functional safety methods and templates


Key Qualifications

  • Must have BSEE in EE with 8+ years of relevant experience or MSEE with 7+ years of relevant experience
  • Knowledge of one or more of protocols:  DDR / PCIE / UCIE
  • Understanding of semiconductor development flows (digital design background advantageous)
  • Formal training in ISO 26262
  • Experience with various ISO 26262 work products (Hardware focus) such as Technical Safety Concept; Safety Plan; FMEA Analysis; FMEDA Analysis; Dependent Fault Analysis; Safety Manual; Safety Case
  • Experience as a Functional Safety Engineer in safety critical applications with solid understanding of hardware development and functional lifecycle management
  • Experience in qualifying systems with embedded hardware to various ISO 26262 ASIL levels up to ASIL D
  • Knowledge of  C/C++, TCL, Perl, Python is added advantage
  • Proficient in English
  • Working knowledge of JAMA / Doors / or similar
  • Working understanding of automotive reliability standards such as AEC Q100 is an advantage

Working understanding of quality standards such as ISO 9001 or IATF 16949 is an advantage

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