Functional Safety Manager

Cadence is a pivotal leader in electronic design, building upon more than 30 years of computational software expertise. The company applies its underlying Intelligent System Design strategy to deliver software, hardware and IP that turn design concepts into reality.

Cadence customers are the world's most innovative companies, delivering extraordinary electronic products from chips to boards to systems for the most dynamic market applications including consumer, hyperscale computing, 5G communications, automotive, aerospace industrial and health.

At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.

Job Title: Sr Principal Design Engineer

Location: Edinburgh, Cambridge, Bracknell Cork

Reports to: Sr Solutions Architect

Job Overview:

The Functional Safety Manager will be responsible for the ISO 26262 safety management of Cadence design IP products targeted for automotive products, and development of ISO 26262 compliant processes, infrastructure, and work products. He/she will work with the safety organizations of our customers, vendors, external safety expert consultants and internal product development teams to ensure that the functional safety process is well understood, executed and documented.

This role will be an integral part of an agile engineering team that focuses on bringing safety solutions per the ISO26262 standard to Cadence customers in the fast growing Automotive/ADAS markets.

This individual will support the organization's mission, vision, and values by exhibiting the following behaviors: excellence and competence, collaboration, flexibility, innovation, respect, accountability, ownership, and a sense of humor.

Job Responsibilities:

• Act as Functional Safety Manager for safety related hardware and software products
• Analyze impact of ISO 26262 releases for DIP and create Functional Safety awareness across department
• Perform safety management activities according to relevant standards during all project phases (concept, product development, production) such as developing safety plans including defining the necessary safety related activities, work products and processes
• Manage creation of safety work products which include the Safety Plan, Safety Manual, Safety Requirements, and Safety Analysis including FMEDA and DFA and Safety Verification and Validation activities
• Collaborate with project engineers, marketing & development team, safety consultants, vendors and customers on Functional Safety activities
• Define and implement functional safety processes associated with hardware development
• Create/review functional safety documentation according to ISO 26262
• Conduct reviews with product teams to ensure functional safety standards are being met throughout product development cycles

Job Qualifications:

• BSEE/BS Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering (or equivalent). MS preferred.
• 10+ or more years of relevant work experience.
• Experience with ISO 26262 standard. Preferable if holds Safety certification.
• Experience in functional safety compliance, testing or auditing or QA (quality assurance) of embedded HW/SW systems
• Experience in safety analysis of hardware including FMEA, FMEDA and DFA
• Experience in working with certification bodies to gain product certification to ISO26262
• Experience with standards-based embedded HW/SW systems Product Development Life Cycle i.e. HW IP design and verification processes, ASIC design methodologies, and software development tools and methods.
• Familiarity with Configuration, Requirements, and Documentation Management tools (e.g. GitHub, Jama, DOORS, JIRA, etc)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and clear, concise documentation writing skills
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills and the ability to communicate complex ideas succinctly and persuasively to peers, management, customers and partners.

Additional Skills/Preferences:

• Proven record of taking customer safety requirements from concept to final product.
• Experience in working with certification bodies to gain product certification to ISO26262
• Experience in fault injection techniques
• Experience in development of software safety diagnostic routines
• Experience in Software Quality and process (e.g., SPICE, CMMI).
• Experience of applying MISRA standards in software development
• Knowledge of ISO 9001 Quality Management standard
• Knowledge of cybersecurity and ISO21434

Cadence is committed to equal employment opportunity and employment equity throughout all levels of the organization. We strive to attract a qualified and diverse candidate pool and encourage diversity and inclusion in the workplace. 

Travel: Occasional travel, including international travel, will be required.