Lead Safety Engineer

Lead Safety Engineer Company: Vilas Business Solutions Job Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India Employment Type: Full-time Experience Required: 8 - 12 years Salary: 18L30L a year We are looking for a Senior Automotive Safety Engineer with strong experience in embedded software development, AUTOSAR, and Functional Safety for safety-critical automotive products. The ideal candidate should have handson experience developing and implementing software safety mechanisms for products such as steering, braking, or airbag systems. The candidate will be responsible for contributing to the definition, development, implementation, and verification of safetyrelated software functions in compliance with automotive functional safety standards such as ISO 26262. Key Responsibilities Design and develop embedded automotive software for safetycritical applications. Apply strong software development experience to automotive ECU and safetyrelated systems. Work with AUTOSAR architecture, including relevant Classic AUTOSAR components and software layers. Experience with ASIL Part B, C and D. Define and implement software safety mechanisms such as monitoring, diagnostics, fault detection, error handling, watchdog mechanisms, memory protection, communication monitoring, and other safety measures. Demonstrate handson experience in implementing safety mechanisms and explain their contribution to product safety. Work on safetycritical automotive products, preferably steering and/or braking systems; experience with airbags is also valuable. Understand the product architecture, system behaviour, failure modes, and safety goals of automotive systems. Contribute to functional safety activities in accordance with ISO 26262. Define and derive safetyrelated software requirements, including Functional Safety Requirements (FSR) and Technical Safety Requirements (TSR) and their allocation to software. Analyze safety requirements and translate them into software design and implementation. Support development of safety concepts and ensure traceability from safety requirements through implementation and testing. Work closely with systems, hardware, safety, and verification teams to ensure safety requirements are correctly implemented. Develop software for microcontrollerbased automotive ECUs and demonstrate understanding of singlecore and multicore microcontroller architectures. Troubleshoot and analyze embedded software issues at ECU and microcontroller level. Participate in design reviews, safety reviews, code reviews, and technical discussions. Support software verification, validation, and safety compliance activities. Preferred Experience Experience in steering or braking ECU software development. Experience working on ASILrated automotive systems. Knowledge of safety mechanisms at both hardware and software levels. Experience with safety analysis techniques such as FMEA/FMEDA/FTA. Experience with automotive communication protocols such as CAN/CAN FD, LIN, FlexRay, or Automotive Ethernet. Experience with software development and verification in a regulated/safetycritical environment. Education Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electronics/Electrical Engineering, Embedded Systems, or a related technical discipline. Experience Level Typically 8-12+ years of automotive embedded software experience, with significant handson experience in functional safety and safetycritical ECU development. .