Position Description

The Senior Director Functional Safety leads a team of 40+ engineers who work on the Functional Safety aspects of recent products development. This team includes people who perform direct work on the Functional Safety Architecture and Functional Safety Management of new products, as well as those who define and develop intellectual property (IP) and assets for reuse across NXP’s products in development (NPIs – New Product Introductions). It may also include leading activities related to Customer Support and Enablement of functional safety. The team currently resides in Austin, Texas USA; Milan, Italy; Toulouse, France; Noida, India; Bangalore, India; Munich, Germany; Glasgow, UK; Hamburg, Germany; and Nijmegen, Netherlands. This is a 2nd -line management position (manager of) reporting to the Vice President of Global Safety in the organization led by NXP’s Chief Technology Officer. The key stakeholders/interfaces of this role are the leadership teams of the NXP Product Lines, the IP development teams,



and the business-aligned and central teams in Functional Safety.

Position Objectives / Deliverables

As part of the Functional Safety management team, be a change-maker to help transform Functional Safety into a clear differentiator for NXP, making NXP safety iconic. Empower team managers to drive development and delivery of Functional Safety for all NXP microcontroller, microprocessor and analog products. Spearhead roadmap definition and technology development of IP and reuse assets to efficiently deliver functional safety for NXP’s new product roadmap. Champion Customer Support and Enablement activities driven by a leader in your team. Drive alignment on best practices for functional safety product development across your team as well as with the other hardware and software safety development teams. Spearhead development of new capabilities, including use of AI, to deliver breakthrough improvements in functional safety new product development effic

📌 Senior Director Functional Safety (Bengaluru)
🏢 NXP Semiconductors
📍 Bengaluru