Systems Engineer Functional Safety | SR WVB - Phoenix, AZ, United States
Originally posted 14 October 2026 by the employer.
Work on Functional Safety aspects of devices in the Wide VIN Buck (WVB) product line.
About the role
This role involves defining new products and platforms based on market opportunities, leveraging technical knowledge of existing portfolios and understanding industry standards. You will focus on the Functional Safety aspects of devices across the entire Wide VIN Buck (WVB) Product Line.
What you'll do
- Define new products and platforms based on market opportunity.
- Engage with customers and translate requirements into technical specifications.
- Partner with marketing, applications engineers, and design teams to meet customer and market requirements.
- Convert customer requirements to specifications, including IC specifications or safety concepts.
- Execute towards development timelines and ensure on-time project delivery.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering.
- 3+ years of relevant functional safety experience.
Nice to have
- Relevant Functional Safety Certification (e.g. ISO 26262/IEC61508, TUV SUD).
- Experience understanding requirements for Power ICs within the Automotive and Industrial markets.
- Strong understanding of analog/mixed-signal ICs and their application.
- Experience promoting ICs and driving design wins by providing system solutions.
- Strong customer facing skills.
- Ability to evaluate customer's system for Functional Safety requirements to determine the appropriate semiconductor safety level and features for Power products.
- Ability to enable hardware and/or software safety architecture requirements for buck regulators.
- Ability to collaborate on functional safety development needs including training materials and reference designs.
- Support functional safety related CA/PA (Correct Action/Preventive Action) to address customer issues, returns and questions.
- Interpret functional safety standards (e.g. IEC 61508/ISO 26262) from a semiconductor component perspective taking into account system applications (specifically buck regulators).
- Familiarity with functional safety standards such as IEC 61508 and ISO 26262.
Skills: Functional Safety, ISO 26262, IEC 61508, ASIL, buck regulators, safety architecture
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 68-day median for Automotive/Functional Safety Engineering roles.
Automotive/Functional Safety Engineering · Automotive Safety
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Open roles in category
126
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Median days open
68 d
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Median salary
$232k
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| Metric | Texas Instruments | All employers we track in this specialty (126 roles · 27 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 4 | 126 |
| Median days open | 94 d | 68 d (+26 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $232k |
Skills observed across this category: Functional Safety, ISO 26262, IEC 61508, ASIL, buck regulators, safety architecture
Who's hiring in this category
- NXP Semiconductors · 28 open roles · median 43 d
- NVIDIA · 17 open roles · median 56 d
- Infineon Technologies · 14 open roles · median 44 d
- Arm Holdings · 10 open roles · median 82 d
- Qualcomm · 9 open roles · median 188 d
- Renesas Electronics · 8 open roles · median 49 d
How we counted: 126 open Automotive/Functional Safety Engineering (Automotive Safety) roles from 27 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 14 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.