Functional Safety Manager

Swift Navigation is hiring. Let us introduce ourselves. Swift is changing the way we navigate and understand the world. Swift’s precise positioning technology platform improves location accuracy from several meters to centimeter-level and is used by millions of devices across the globe. Swift’s technology is trusted by users across industries, enabling safer driving, improving efficiency for last-mile delivery and commercial transport operations, increasing accuracy for mobile devices and creating new possibilities for rail, robotics and machine control. That’s what we offer our customers and partners, but it’s the work we do together as a team that is the best part of our days. We collaborate—across the globe—to tackle problems, to pursue our mission and to make a real impact in the world. We are diverse, flexible, supportive and we believe our team is our most important asset and offer a host of benefits and programs to ensure that they know it.

Swift Navigation is seeking a Functional Safety Manager with Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL) expertise to guide development of functional safety requirements and application to our strategy and products. 

Responsibilities:

• Develop functional and technical safety concepts to achieve and maintain safety of automotive systems per ISO 26262 requirements
• Lead functional safety activities during all project phases (concept, requirements, design, and verification & validation)
• Oversee functional safety architecture and create requirements to the safety case
• Perform qualitative and quantitative analysis, using methods such as FMEA, FMEDA, FTA, and other safety analysis approaches
• Collaborate with systems teams, project managers, development teams and customers on technical aspects of functional safety 
• Oversee functional safety architecture and performance requirements elicitation and test case development for safety-critical assurance processes;
• Conduct technical reviews with product teams to ensure functional safety requirements are being met throughout product development cycles

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field plus at least seven (7) years of experience in Automotive Functional Safety
• At least ten (10) years relevant experience in the development of engineering software and tools for embedded control environments, including Matlab, Simulink, dSpace, LabView, HIL/SIL test environments, C++ code development, MISRA and other coding guidelines, and related tools and methods.
• Proven experience in embedded SW development 
• Ideally the candidate will have experience achieving ISO 26262 certification
• Familiarity with configuration, requirements, and documentation management tools 
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and clear, concise documentation writing skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to communicate complex ideas succinctly and persuasively to peers, management, customers and partners

Benefits:

We are located in San Francisco, close to public transportation and we are well financed. We offer unlimited vacation days, competitive salary and benefits, a 401(k), a casual office environment, hackathons and tech talks to push the professional growth of all our employees. Come join us!

Perks

• Flexible vacation, competitive salary, employer covered health insurance, 401(k), flexible spending, HSA.
• Tech talks, mentorship programs, employee events. 

• Growth and learning opportunities from a tech environment include working closely with an international team of scientists, engineers, platform architects, programmers, executive staff and professionals.

Swift Navigation is a diverse and inclusive team. We are an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds to apply regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability status or other defining characteristics.

Swift Navigation will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of SFPC Art.49