FERNRIDE

Staff Systems Engineer – Design Assurance

FERNRIDE

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Munich • Germany

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Lead

About the role

  • 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.

Requirements

  • Hands-on expertise in hardware safety, software safety, and fault-tolerant system design — FMEA/FMECA, diagnostic coverage analysis, safe-state design, and safety mechanism specification — with an engineering mindset and hands-on attitude.
  • Experience translating high-level safety functions into verifiable, allocatable system requirements and managing full traceability across the engineering lifecycle.
  • Ability to evaluate cost-benefit tradeoffs between alternative safety architectures and present quantitative safety arguments (PFH, PFHd, MTTFd, DCavg, SFF, PL metrics).
  • Strong collaboration skills — you bridge the gap between safety analysis and engineering implementation.
  • Interest in AI-assisted engineering workflows and willingness to shape how AI tools support requirements management and compliance verification.
  • Comfortable working with software development tools — GitHub, VS Code, Bazel, Markdown, CI/CD pipelines — to operate and evolve the AI-assisted methodology.
Benefits
  • Flexible working hours & remote work
  • All-day breakfast and unlimited drinks, fruits, and snacks
  • Lunch subsidy
  • Select one of three options: (1) EUR 40 Spendit card /month (2) Wellpass (3) Mobility card
  • Company pension scheme
  • Team, department, and company events
  • 30 days of vacation
  • Up to six weeks of remote work in countries covered under the EHIC (European Health Insurance Card)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
hardware safety analysissoftware safety analysisfault-tolerant system designFMEAFMECAdiagnostic coverage analysissafe-state designsafety mechanism specificationcost-benefit tradeoffsverification and validation (V&V)
Soft Skills
collaborationengineering mindsethands-on attitudequantitative safety argument presentationcommunication