Technical Functional Safety Program Manager in Cambridge

The Technical Functional Safety Program Manager is responsible for leading planning, coordination, execution, and tracking of functional safety programs across the product lifecycle, integrating ISO 26262 management with program management duties.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross‑functional execution of functional safety programs through planning, execution, delivery, and support phases.
• Develop and maintain overall program plan, including schedules, milestones, dependencies, resourcing assumptions, critical path, and risk tracking.
• Drive functional safety management activities in accordance with ISO 26262 and SiFive internal processes, creating and maintaining safety plans.
• Create and maintain safety case; track closure of actions needed to demonstrate compliance.
• Coordinate development of key functional safety work products and customer‑facing deliverables such as Safety Manual, Development Interface Agreement, safety analyses, and safety packages.
• Track and drive closure of safety‑related risks, issues, action items, errata impact analyses, and change‑related decisions.
• Facilitate technical and program discussions, resolve high‑level project issues, and ensure effective decision making across stakeholders.
• Communicate safety status, program status, risks, and progress to senior management and stakeholders.
• Support and participate in internal and external audits, assessments, reviews, and confirmation measures.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure safety requirements are captured, understood, implemented, verified, and traced.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of program management, product lifecycle, and functional safety processes.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years of technical leadership and program management experience leading cross‑functional semiconductor or compute‑related programs.
• 4+ years of experience with CPU, GPU, compute element, semiconductor, or semiconductor IP development with sufficient technical depth.
• Experience driving programs from concept through execution, delivery, and release with clear metrics, risk, and dependency management.
• Familiarity with ISO 26262 and functional safety product development requirements; experience managing or supporting programs for ASIL B through ASIL D is strongly preferred.
• Understanding of functional safety lifecycle activities and relevant work products (safety plans, safety cases, requirements traceability, audits, assessments).
• Ability to facilitate technical discussions and drive alignment and engineering decisions across cross‑functional teams.
• Proficiency with JIRA, Confluence, Git/GitHub, JAMA or similar requirements management tools and program/project tracking tools such as Smartsheets or equivalent.
• Excellent organization, communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast‑paced environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands‑on experience in semiconductor IP design and verification processes, ASIC development methodologies, and product development lifecycle execution.
• Experience collaborating with functional safety architects, certification bodies, or external assessors as part of product safety assessments.
• Working knowledge of hardware safety analysis methods such as DFMEA, FMEA, FMEDA, and DFA.
• Knowledge of ISO 9001 and ISO/SAE 21434 is a plus.
• Experience managing hardware development programs using Agile methodologies.

This position requires a successful background and reference checks and satisfactory proof of your right to work in the United Kingdom. Any offer of employment for this position is also contingent on verifying that you are authorized for access to export‑controlled technology under applicable export control laws or, if not already authorized, the ability to obtain any necessary export license(es) or other approvals.

SiFive is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.