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Position Overview 

We are seeking a highly motivated & passionate for safety, Functional Safety Architect to join our semiconductor architecture design team. In this role, you will own the device safety architecture and lead the efforts to achieve safety goals by developing technical safety concepts including safety mechanisms derived from safety analyses; and allocating decomposed safety requirements to each IP sub-blocks for next-generation semiconductor devices.  

You will collaborate with architects, IP owners, RTL design engineers, physical design, firmware and verification teams to deliver critical safety collaterals ensuring end goal of achieving successful functional safety certification. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Collaborate with the Architects, Silicon Design, Software teams to architect new safety concepts and safety mechanism features and guide future development. 

• Perform safety analyses (FTA, FMEA, DFA methodologies) against CCF, CF to ensure FFI, independence & Fault tolerance requirements are met. 

• Define safe architecture patterns (lockstep CPUs, ECC memories, watchdogs, redundancy). 

• Review and contribute to writing safety requirement specifications with FSEs. 

• Guide teams on ASIL/SIL decomposition, fault tolerance, diagnostics coverage, etc. 

• Review hardware/software safety designs for compliance and feasibility. 

• Collaborate with design verification teams to define safety V&V strategy (fault injection, fault simulation, test methodologies). 

• Ensure achievement of diagnostic coverage metrics (SPFM, LFM, PMHF). 

Minimum Requirements