Overview
Expleo is a trusted partner for end-to-end, integrated engineering, quality services and management consulting for digital transformation. We help businesses harness unrelenting technological change to successfully deliver innovations that will help them gain a competitive advantage and improve the everyday lives of people around the globe.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Functional Safety Architect / Safety Engineer (FuSa) to support the development of advanced automotive electrical and electronic systems within a high-performance engineering environment.
This role focuses on the implementation and delivery of Functional Safety activities across electrified propulsion and vehicle control systems, ensuring compliance with ISO 26262 throughout the full safety lifecycle. The successful candidate will play a key role in developing safety concepts, deriving safety requirements, supporting system architecture activities, and guiding cross-functional teams through safety-driven development processes.
The position is ideally suited to an engineer with strong experience in automotive Functional Safety, embedded systems, and electrified powertrain or vehicle control systems.
Responsibilities
Functional Safety Leadership & Delivery
- Lead and support Functional Safety activities across vehicle systems and embedded electronic control systems.
- Provide technical guidance on ISO 26262 compliance across:
- System level
- Hardware level
- Software level
- Production and operational safety activities
- Contribute hands-on to Functional Safety work products in accordance with ISO 26262 Parts 4, 5, and 6.
- Support development and implementation of safety lifecycle processes and best practices.
Safety Requirements & Concept Development
- Perform safety analysis and derive:
- Functional Safety Requirements (FSR)
- Technical Safety Requirements (TSR)
- Hardware Safety Requirements (HSR)
- Software Safety Requirements (SSR)
- Develop:
- Functional Safety Concepts (FSC)
- Technical Safety Concepts (TSC)
- Support Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment (HARA) activities.
- Define safety mechanisms and monitoring concepts for embedded automotive systems.
- Develop function monitoring strategies aligned to industry safety standards and architectures.
Systems & Architecture Support
- Support System Architects in defining robust system architectures for electrified and embedded vehicle systems.
- Collaborate with software and hardware architecture teams to ensure safety requirements are fully integrated into product design.
- Support creation of detailed product requirement and mechanisation documentation.
- Evaluate stakeholder and customer requirements and translate them into safety-compliant system definitions.
Verification, Validation & Compliance
- Support generation of safety compliance verification and validation plans.
- Collaborate with verification teams to ensure traceability between hazards, safety goals, requirements, and test activities.
- Participate in safety audits, assessments, and gap analysis activities.
- Support generation and maintenance of safety case documentation and compliance evidence.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Work closely with:
- Systems Engineering teams
- Software and Hardware teams
- Verification & Validation teams
- Vehicle integration teams
- External suppliers and global engineering stakeholders
- Support issue resolution and technical reviews relating to safety compliance and system behaviour.
- Mentor and guide junior engineers in Functional Safety processes and methodologies where required.
Qualifications
Degree or equivalent experience in Automotive Engineering, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.
Strong understanding of automotive embedded systems and safety-critical development processes.
- Functional Safety certification or ISO 26262 training is advantageous.
Essential skills
- Strong experience applying ISO 26262 across automotive embedded systems and safety-critical development programmes.
- Proven capability developing and managing:
- HARA
- Functional Safety Concepts (FSC)
- Technical Safety Concepts (TSC)
- Functional, Technical, Hardware, and Software Safety Requirements (FSR/TSR/HSR/SSR)
- Safety verification and validation activities
- Safety case documentation and gap analysis
- Strong understanding of:
- Embedded control systems
- Real-time systems
- ECU architectures
- Automotive electrical/electronic systems
- Functional safety lifecycle processes
- Experience supporting safety activities across:
- Electrified powertrain systems
- Vehicle control systems
- HV systems
- Inverters
- DC-DC converters
- Battery management systems
- On-board chargers
- Vehicle Stability Control (VSC) systems
- Understanding of:
- Microcontrollers
- ASICs
- Embedded hardware/software interaction
- Safety monitoring strategies
- AUTOSAR and embedded software safety architectures
- Familiarity with:
- Model-based systems engineering
- Structured automotive V-cycle development
- Requirements traceability and compliance management
- Experience using engineering and requirements management tools such as:
- DOORS
- JIRA
- Confluence
- Requirements traceability tools
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management capability.
- Ability to lead technical discussions and collaborate effectively across multidisciplinary engineering teams, suppliers, and global stakeholders.
- Experience working within:
- Automotive propulsion
- Vehicle dynamics
- Electrification
- High-performance automotive
- Advanced engineering or R&D environments.
Experience
- Proven experience in Functional Safety engineering within the automotive sector.
- Experience supporting safety activities for embedded systems and vehicle electronics.
- Hands-on experience developing safety concepts and safety requirements for automotive systems.
- Experience working within powertrain, propulsion, vehicle dynamics, or vehicle control environments is highly desirable.
- Experience collaborating across multidisciplinary engineering teams and external suppliers.
- Experience supporting system-level safety integration and compliance activities.
- Exposure to AUTOSAR-based systems and embedded software safety processes is advantageous.
Benefits
- Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges
- We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
- Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
- Competitive company benefits
- Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo
- As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:
- Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
- Communicating and promoting vacancies
- Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
- Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
- Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people
“We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age”.
We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive
