Automotive Functional Safety Staff Engineer - Digital DesignWare IP
Originally posted 14 September 2026 by the employer — open 4 days.
About the role
This Staff Engineer role focuses on developing and maintaining ISO 26262 work products for Digital DesignWare IP, ensuring compliance and certification for safety-critical automotive applications.
What you'll do
- Develop and maintain ISO 26262 work products including Technical Safety Concept, FMEDA, FTA, DFMEA, DFA, Safety Plan, and Safety Case for Digital DesignWare IP.
- Collaborate with IP development teams and automotive customers to align functional safety deliverables with project timelines and ASIL requirements.
- Evaluate customer quality, functional safety, and reliability requirements, translating them into actionable engineering guidance.
- Design and implement automation scripts to streamline safety analysis workflows, including FMEDA and fault injection reporting.
- Lead quality and functional safety reviews, generating detailed reports with findings and recommendations for design improvements.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering with 8+ years of relevant experience, or Master's degree with 5+ years.
- Formal training and hands-on expertise in ISO 26262 functional safety standards, including direct experience developing safety work products for ASIL B, C, or D applications.
- Demonstrated experience with semiconductor development flows and digital design at the IP or SoC level.
- Proficiency in English for technical writing and cross-functional collaboration with global teams.
- Proven track record qualifying embedded hardware or hardware/software systems to ISO 26262 ASIL levels, including ASIL D.
Nice to have
- Experience with ISO 26262 Part 5.
- Experience with hardware description languages like Verilog or VHDL.
- Experience with AEC Q100.
- Experience with scripting languages such as Python.
Skills: ISO 26262, ASIL, FMEDA, Technical Safety Concept, Digital DesignWare IP
This role has been open 2 days — well below the 58-day median for Automotive/Functional Safety Engineering roles.
Automotive/Functional Safety Engineering · Automotive Safety
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Open roles in category
115
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Median days open
58 d
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Median salary
$260k
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| Metric | Synopsys | All employers we track in this specialty (115 roles · 25 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 3 | 115 |
| Median days open | 16 d | 58 d (−42 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $260k |
Skills observed across this category: ISO 26262, ASIL, FMEDA, Technical Safety Concept, Digital DesignWare IP
Who's hiring in this category
- NXP Semiconductors · 23 open roles · median 57 d
- NVIDIA · 14 open roles · median 49 d
- Qualcomm · 13 open roles · median 94 d
- Arm Holdings · 10 open roles · median 56 d
- Infineon Technologies · 9 open roles · median 23 d
- Mobileye · 9 open roles · median 37 d
How we counted: 115 open Automotive/Functional Safety Engineering (Automotive Safety) roles from 25 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 18 Sept 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.