Senior/Staff Systems Engineer, Powertrain System Safety and Fail Operational

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      "content": "\n<li>Lead powertrain safety and fail-operational design and analysis covering high-voltage battery systems, charging, propulsion, and on-vehicle load management</li>\n<li>Architect vehicle-level safety concepts, focusing on fault tolerance, and fail-operational behaviors necessary for supporting autonomy and ensuring mission assurance on the vehicle’s powertrain functions&nbsp;</li>\n<li>Develop vehicle level safety concepts covering fault detection, and vehicle level reaction for ensuring the powertrain systems can achieve mission objectives under presence of faults&nbsp;</li>\n<li>Own the delivery of key work-products including hazard analysis risk assessment (HARA), fault tree analysis (FTA), functional safety concept, vehicle level safety requirements, safety clearance artifacts, and quantitative residual risk assessments</li>\n<li>Drive consensus across product, feature, operations, vehicle engineering, software, autonomy and legal teams to implement and release safety requirements</li>\n"
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      "content": "\n<li>B.S. or higher degree in Automotive, Aerospace, Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical, Mechanical, or Systems Engineering</li>\n<li>Proven track record with electrified powertrains (battery management systems, motor drives/inverters, high to low voltage Direct Current to Direct Current (DC/DC) converters, vehicle torque management, etc)&nbsp;</li>\n<li>Hands-on experience in developing for safety-critical applications in autonomous vehicles, automotive, or aerospace spanning both fail-safe and fail-operational regimes</li>\n<li>4+ years of work experience conducted hazard analysis risk assessment, authoring requirements and their decomposition, managing requirements and requirements traceability through development</li>\n<li>Experience performing first-principles based analysis, simulation(Matlab, Python, etc), etc to drive trade-offs between various architectural choices, diagnostics or reactions</li>\n<li>Hands-on experience creating work-products for functional safety standards ISO 26262, ISO 13849, IEC 61508, DO-178C, DO-254, or equivalent</li>\n<li>Experience with requirements management tools such as Jama, Doors, Polarion, etc.</li>\n<li>Collaborative team player with strong written and in-person communication skills, capable of influencing and driving consensus, and presenting complex data to varied audiences including senior executives</li>\n"
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      "content": "\n<li>Knowledge of embedded development (firmware, and electrical)</li>\n<li>Experience designing real-time control systems</li>\n"
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