Help shape the future of mobility.

Your Role

Sets functional-safety strategy and organizational governance across the portfolio, ensuring robust technical authority, competent execution, customer confidence and sustainable safety ownership.

RFQ / Concept
Set pursuit risk posture, competence model, independence and commitments.
Planning / Architecture
Approve governance, plans, staffing and technical-authority deployment.
Implementation / Integration
Steer systemic risks, critical programs, cross-domain dependencies and evidence maturity.
Verification / Release
Make executive decisions on open safety risks and release posture.
Production / Operations
Oversee field anomalies, systemic corrective actions and long-range capability renewal.

Key responsibilities
- Define functional-safety operating model, governance and investment strategy.
- Own portfolio capacity, competence, independence, succession and assessor readiness.
- Ensure consistent lifecycle application across vehicle, component, hardware and software safety.
- Chair critical safety, release and escalation decisions.




- Represent safety posture with customers and senior leadership; drive systemic corrective action.

EDUCATION B.E./B.Tech or M.E./M.Tech in Computer Science, Electronics, Electrical, Instrumentation, or a related engineering discipline

EXPERIENCE 15+ years

Your Background

Required competencies
- Extensive automotive engineering leadership with functional-safety accountability.
- Deep ISO 26262 lifecycle, confirmation-measure, safety-case and Automotive SPICE knowledge.
- Portfolio planning, organizational design, customer negotiation and risk governance.
- Demonstrated measurable improvement in delivery and capability.

Preferred competencies
- Assessor/auditor qualification, SOTIF, semiconductor safety and global CoE development.

Expected outputs / measures of success
- Domain strategy
- Portfolio safety dashboard
- Governance and technical-authority model
- Capability/succession plan
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📌 FuSa Senior Engineering Manager (Bengaluru)
🏢 Aptiv
📍 Bengaluru