Principal Hardware & IC Functional Safety Architect

As Principal Hardware & IC Functional Safety Architect, you will define the functional safety architecture for analog, mixed-signal, and power semiconductors. You will translate system safety needs into robust IC-level concepts while balancing safety, performance, and cost. You’ll work across cross-functional teams to ensure ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 compliance and apply safety analyses to influence architecture decisions. This role spans automotive and expanding Power & Energy applications, offering meaningful impact on safe energy solutions.

• Define and drive hardware functional safety concepts and architectures for safety-related IC developments
• Translate system and application safety needs into IC-level safety requirements, mechanisms, and concepts to meet ASIL/SIL targets
• Ensure consistency between safety requirements, product architecture, analyses, and use-case assumptions
• Identify opportunities for optimized safety architectures with controlled complexity
• Deliver Safety manual integration and enable IC usage in safety-related applications
• Conduct hardware safety analyses (FMEA, FMEDA, FTA, DFA) and evaluate failure modes, diagnostic coverage, and residual risks
• Feed analysis results back into architecture and design decisions
• Provide functional safety expertise across Power & Energy applications including power management, data-center power, industrial automation, robotics

• Master's degree or equivalent in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Semiconductor Engineering or related field
• Strong experience in semiconductor hardware architecture, IC design and product development
• In-depth knowledge of ISO 26262 and/or IEC 61508
• Practical experience with FMEDA, FMEA, FTA and DFA
• Understanding of requirements-driven semiconductor development and system-to-IC safety mapping

• Technical leadership and architectural thinking
• Strong communication across engineering, management, customers, and safety assessors
• Ability to challenge complex architectures constructively
• IC hardware architecture
• Safety analyses (FMEDA, FMEA, FTA, DFA)
• ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 knowledge