Functional Safety Engineer in Woking

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.