FuSa Engineer (Functional Safety Engineer)

Responsibilities:

• Identifies plans, organizes, tracks and documents all necessary FuSa activities within a project.
• Ensures close co-operation with the R&D TPM (Technical Project Manager) and other FuSa resources in other sites or external contractors.
• Acts as a mentor/guide for product development FuSa activities.
• Ensures consistent tracking of all FuSa related activities.
• Organizes/prepares/supports/moderates FuSa activities and FuSa analysis.
• Ensures documentation of FuSa activities, establishes evidence of FuSa.
• Negotiates and agrees with the Customer the scope and common understanding of the FuSa requirements.
• Agrees the project Development Interface Agreement (DIA) with customers regarding FuSa.
• Communicates and reviews with customers to ensure common understanding and agreement on FuSa implementation.
• Identifies FuSa requirements within the project based on Customer Requirements.
• Leads design analysis to support the development of safety case arguments for related developed products.
• Ensures the integration of the FuSa activities in the developed project based on the defined FuSa development plan.
• Leads hazard and risk analyses where necessary.
• Leads FuSa requirements and FuSa concepts for system / component.
• Supports the definition/specification of FuSa requirements for HW and SW architectures.
• Demonstrates how the chosen technical concept will comply with FuSa requirements.
• Collaborates with the design team for an effective technical solution, to achieve adequate robustness at System, HW and SW architectural level in compliance with ISO26262.
• Prepares and assists to the Safety Assessment Reviews held by the safety assessor.
• Leads or participates in safety analysis processes (e.g. FMEAs, FTAs, FMEDAs, etc.).
• Defines the safety verification & validation activities.
• Creates the Safety Case for the product.
• Defines, tracks and reports of KPIs in his/her area of responsibility.
• Continuously identifies areas for improvement, defines measures and ensures implementation in his area of responsibility
• Functional reporting to System TPM (Technical Project Manager) and its PL (Product Line) FuSa Discipline Manager.

Required Skills/Experience:

• Engineering Degree or relevant educational background
• System and/or Software experience in Japan’s automotive industry (more than 3 years)
• Preferably FUSA management experience in automotive industry
• Strong knowledge of ISO26262 Functional Safety Standard
• Strong knowledge of ASPICE
• Strong communication and interpersonal and reporting skills
• Strong technical presentation skills
• Japanese & English bilingual skills