$172,900 - $237,700 USD yearly
Originally posted 15 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves ensuring product quality, reliability, and performance by uncovering root causes of errors, driving improvements, and implementing solutions in Functional Safety and Cyber Security Quality Management.
What you'll do
- Ensure compliance with ISO 26262 and ISO21434 requirements throughout the product lifecycle.
- Verify work products and safety activities adhere to project requirements and functional safety processes.
- Plan and conduct Confirmation reviews, Functional Safety Audits (FSA), Functional Safety Assessments (FSA), and Internal process audits.
- Define and monitor KPIs such as audit findings closure rate, functional safety compliance rate, and process adherence metrics.
- Analyze audit results, lessons learned, and safety incidents to drive continuous improvement.
- Review and assess safety work products including TLSR, TSC, Safety Case, Safety Analysis (DC, FMEDA, SPFM, LFM, FIT rate), Safety Verification Plan, Safety Validation Reports, and Confirmation Measures documentation.
What you'll need
- Strong knowledge of ISO 26262 and the functional safety lifecycle.
- Experience with HARA, FMEA/DFMEA, FTA, FMEDA, safety concepts, and safety requirements management.
- Experience reviewing and assessing safety work products such as Safety Plans, Safety Cases, Technical Safety Concepts, verification plans, validation reports and confirmation-measures documentation.
- Experience auditing cross-functional hardware, software, design, verification, and systems teams to ensure compliance with ISO 26262 and ISO 21434 across the product lifecycle.
Skills: Functional Safety, ISO 26262, ISO21434, safety audits, FMEDA
This role has been open 30 days — well below the 69-day median for Automotive/Functional Safety Engineering roles.
Automotive/Functional Safety Engineering · Automotive Safety
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Open roles in category
125
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Median days open
69 d
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Median salary
$233k
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| Metric | Infineon Technologies | All employers we track in this specialty (125 roles · 26 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 13 | 125 |
| Median days open | 45 d | 69 d (−24 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $233k |
Skills observed across this category: Functional Safety, ISO 26262, ISO21434, safety audits, FMEDA
Who's hiring in this category
- NXP Semiconductors · 28 open roles · median 44 d
- NVIDIA · 18 open roles · median 54 d
- Infineon Technologies (this employer) · 13 open roles · median 45 d
- Arm Holdings · 10 open roles · median 83 d
- Qualcomm · 9 open roles · median 189 d
- Renesas Electronics · 8 open roles · median 50 d
How we counted: 125 open Automotive/Functional Safety Engineering (Automotive Safety) roles from 26 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 15 Oct 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.