Functional Safety & RAS Lead

Help build safe and highly reliable RISC-V compute platforms for automotive, robotics, physical AI, and data center applications.

Originally posted 16 October 2026 by the employer.

About the role

This individual contributor role focuses on functional safety and reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) for compute platforms. You will work with customers and engineering teams to turn safety and reliability needs into deliverable products.

What you'll do

• Work with customers and internal teams to understand functional safety and RAS needs from requirements to release.
• Be an expert on functional safety, especially ISO 26262 and IEC 61508, as applied to processor and SoC products.
• Define program scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, and engineering resource needs.
• Ensure safety requirements and decisions remain traceable through implementation, verification, and documentation.
• Identify gaps and technical risks, including dependent failures and common-cause concerns, and work to address them.
• Support customer assessments, internal reviews, external assessors, audits, and certification activities.

What you'll need

• Deep knowledge of functional safety and ISO 26262, including FMEDA, fault modeling, diagnostic coverage, safety cases, and fault-injection planning.
• Experience applying functional safety standards to semiconductor, processor, or SoC development and working with automotive customers.
• Knowledge of processor or SoC architecture and development.
• Experience with RAS concepts and mechanisms, including fault detection, error reporting, containment, and recovery.
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional technical programs.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in EE, CE, CS, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of experience in functional safety, RAS, hardware reliability, or related work in semiconductor, processor, SoC, or complex hardware development.
• 5+ years of experience in semiconductor, SoC, processor-IP, or complex hardware development, with significant architecture or technical-leadership responsibility.
• Deep experience applying ISO 26262 and functional safety methods such as FMEDA, FMEA, fault-tree analysis, diagnostic coverage, and fault injection.
• Strong understanding of SoC and IP development, from requirements and architecture through verification, release, and customer support.
• Experience with features intended to detect and address hardware random failures, such as error detection and reporting, fault containment, redundancy, lockstep, ECC/parity, memory protection, or recovery.
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional technical programs across engineering teams.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with IEC 61508 or other relevant functional safety standards.
• Experience with RISC-V processor or SoC architecture and automotive semiconductor IP developed to ASIL-B or ASIL-D objectives.
• Experience with RAS for data center, AI, robotics, or high-availability compute products.
• Experience with reliability analysis or testing, including soft-error-rate modeling or radiation testing.
• Experience working with certification bodies or external assessors.
• Familiarity with related standards such as ISO/SAE 21434 or cybersecurity engineering.

Skills: Functional Safety, ISO 26262, FMEDA, fault injection, SoC architecture

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