McLaren

As Functional Safety Engineer, you will be responsible to ensure development and achievement with State-of-the-Art Functional Safety attributes across our full range of Sports, Super and Ultimate series vehicles to current and future McLaren Road cars.

To join a highly successful Functional Safety team who effectively manage the Functional Safety activities in accordance with ISO 26262. With a small high-performing team and an interesting number of projects under development at McLaren Automotive, this position has a broad scope and touches different technical areas, dealing with software developed in-house and supplied, internal and external stakeholders, item-level, and vehicle-level analyses, traditional and McLaren’s Zonal E/E Architecture.

This position has a particular interface to Powertrain and Chassis systems, besides our Functional Safety team involved in other areas such as Body, ADAS, HMI/UX, Software development and testing facilities with Agile methodology. Therefore, previous experience or desire to expand your learning in these areas in future would be a plus. The fast-paced development and bespoke target platform provide a challenging environment suited to an engineer who needs to quickly develop skills in new areas and liaise with other engineers within a multidisciplinary team.

Our customers expect high standards, and we require staff capable of meeting such demands.

Principal Accountabilities and key responsibilities

·         Strive for "Safety culture" and "Safety first mindset".

·         Actively participate on regular alignment meetings and bring clarity into daily-FuSa sync as needed.

·         Work closely with Safety manager and team on closure of assigned FuSa deliverables.

·         Support FuSa V-cycle activities completion on assigned systems (DIA, Item definition, HARA, FSR, System & Vehicle tests), at each MAL gateway.

·         Responsible for inductive and conductive safety analysis (FMEA, FTA, DFA) for assigned modules.

·         Ensure FuSa requirements & test specification traceability and consistency at all levels in Doors/ Jama.

·         Ownership and review support on content required for closure on program safety reviews & assessments.

·         Knowledge of Hardware & Software with its interfaces to Systems

·         Support VLSE & Safety Manager in MAL program planning, deliverables, safety reviews & assessments.

·         Responsible for definition and alignment of DIAs with suppliers and follow up activities in MAL's interest.

·         Support development of safety requirements and associated architecture across other systems

·         Create Safety requirements and support function/system owners.

·         Support compliance activities toward standard practices and work products to meet the requirements of ISO 26262 & ISO 21448.

·         Collaborate closely with all FuSa stakeholders (Systems, hardware, software, validation, and suppliers) for successful FuSa delivery of domains/ systems assigned.

Required Technical Knowledge, Skills, and Experience:

·         Working experience in standards like Functional safety ISO26262 & SOTIF ISO21488.

·         Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

·         Ability to solve with logical and systematic approach.

·         Working experience with Product V-development model.

·         Brief understanding of safety-related Hardware-Software interface requirements.

·         Ability to produce formal documentation to a highly professional standard.

·         Experience in applying safety standards, including safety analysis (HARA, FMEA, FTA, etc.).

·         Experience with of requirement management & tracking tools (e.g. Doors, Jama, Jira).

·         Understanding of the automotive electrical architectures and exposure to communication protocols/ standards (CAN, LIN, Ethernet, etc.).

·         Knowledge of vehicle domains such as powertrain, chassis, infotainment, and body controls.

·         Organised, systematic and understand the process of fault finding.

·         Experience with safety-related Hardware-Software interface requirements.

·         Ability to develop software with MATLAB/Simulink (good to have).

Personal Attributes:

·         Team player - Team first

·         Self-motivated and ability to work as a team member across diverse team with minimum supervision.

·         Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Fluent English speaker

·         Flexible approach to working hours.

·         Effective time management and prioritisation of tasks between multiple projects

·         Personable and able to manage and exceed expectations of internal customers.

·         Naturally technical. Able to employ fundamental engineering principles.

·         Passion for the automotive industry and technology would be advantageous.

·         Driving Licence (good to have)

Educational Requirements:

·       Bachelor’s or Master’s degree (preferably 1st or upper 2nd) in or equivalent in a Electronics/ electrical/ computer science/ software engineering with relevant subject specialization.

·       FuSa certification (good to have).

• Structured career development framework
• 25 days’ holiday, plus bank holiday. Annual buy & sell up to five days
• Enhanced company pension scheme
• Discretionary annual bonus award
• Private medical insurance and health cash plan
• Life assurance 4x your basic salary
• Ability to apply for a sabbatical of up to one year after only two years’ service
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• Generous parental leave policies including market leading maternity leave
• Tax efficient nursery scheme benefit
• A range of wellbeing initiatives, such as employee assistance programme and free financial & mortgage advice
• Friends and family day
• Opportunities to experience our fantastic cars

No restraints. No limitations. We don’t simply push boundaries. We completely rethink them. McLaren Automotive exists to create breath-taking performance road cars.

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