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Systems Engineer

• Establish and maintain the design assurance process, ensuring safety functions are correctly implemented through the technical architecture.
• Conduct hardware safety analysis — FMEA/FMECA, failure rate analysis, diagnostic coverage, component derating, and environmental qualification.
• Conduct software safety analysis — architecture assessment, identification of safety-relevant software components, and definition of software safety requirements.
• Conduct ML element assurance — data governance, model validation, robustness testing, performance monitoring, and uncertainty quantification for safety-relevant ML components.
• Contribute to component selection for safety-critical functions — evaluate against reliability data, failure mode profiles, and supply chain maturity.
• Define safety mechanisms — redundancy, monitoring, plausibility checks, safe-state transitions, and watchdogs.
• Drive fault injection test design — fault models, injection points, expected responses, and coverage targets.
• Contribute to cost-benefit tradeoffs between alternative safety architectures and recommend the most efficient path to required integrity.
• Contribute to technical risk acceptance — assess residual failure probabilities and confirm design meets allocated integrity targets.
• Maintain safety concept documents defining safety architecture, fault models, diagnostic strategy, and safe-state definitions.
• Own and maintain the system requirements baseline — translate safety measures, security controls, and design needs into verifiable requirements with full traceability.
• Manage compliance matrices for design-level regulations (Low Voltage Directive, EMC Directive, Battery Regulation, REACH, RoHS, POPs).
• Maintain environmental compliance documents (LCEP, EDC, ETS), substance register, and project handbook.
• Coordinate with System Safety to receive safety function allocations and integrity targets; provide feasibility and cost-benefit feedback; escalate when targets are infeasible.
• Coordinate with Product Security on shared technical architecture — fail-safe vs. fail-secure behavior, component selection criteria, and unified software development guidelines.
• Translate system requirements into hardware design rules, software coding guidelines, and integration test requirements for engineering teams; participate in design reviews and FMEA workshops.
• Define verification criteria and fault injection test cases on system requirements for V&V; specify coverage targets; review and accept V&V evidence for design-level safety claims.
• Develop and maintain AI-assisted workflows for requirements management, compliance auditing, and traceability verification.

Staff Systems Engineer – Design Assurance

• Establish and shape cybersecurity awareness and management across the product domain.
• Conduct threat analysis and risk assessment (TARA) — identify assets, model threat scenarios and attack paths, assess attack feasibility and impact, and determine cybersecurity assurance levels.
• Define and maintain attacker and asset models — adversary profiles, asset criticality classifications, and security domain boundaries.
• Specify security controls — defense-in-depth measures including network segmentation, access control, authentication, encryption, secure boot, and intrusion detection.
• Define technical security architecture — security domains, trust boundaries, secure communication channels, and key management strategy.
• Own supply chain security — evaluate third-party components for known vulnerabilities, define secure procurement requirements, and manage the SBOM.
• Define secure development lifecycle requirements and align with engineering teams on security-relevant coding practices and CI/CD pipeline security.
• Own cybersecurity risk acceptance — present residual threat risk arguments and recommend security posture conditions for product release.
• Define operational security measures — incident response procedures, security monitoring, update/patch management, and key rotation.
• Maintain cybersecurity concept documents and compliance matrices (Cyber Resilience Act, Radio Equipment Directive security clauses, AI Act security clauses).
• Coordinate with System Safety on threat landscape input for hazard analysis (cyber-physical attack paths), alignment of operational security and safety measures, and safety-security interactions at mode-transition boundaries.
• Coordinate with Design Assurance on shared technical architecture — fail-safe vs. fail-secure decisions, component selection criteria, and unified software development guidelines.
• Translate security controls into actionable implementation guidance for engineering teams; review designs for attack surface exposure.
• Define penetration test scope, attack simulation scenarios, and acceptance criteria for V&V; review and accept V&V evidence for cybersecurity claims.
• Coordinate with Quantum Systems core group on security aspects of the C3 system (MOSAIC) and multi-domain operation.
• Develop and maintain AI-assisted workflows for security analysis and compliance auditing.

Staff Systems Engineer – Design Assurance

Staff Systems Engineer – Product Security