Role – Functional Safety Lead

Exp - 6 - 12 years

Area of Responsibility

- Lead functional safety engineering across the complete product development lifecycle, establishing technical direction, plans, interfaces, deliverables, reviews, evidence and acceptance criteria required for compliant programmed delivery.
- Act as the lead functional safety engineer and subject matter expert, providing authoritative interpretation and proportionate application of ISO 26262 to customer programmed, products, platforms and distributed development responsibilities.
- Plan, coordinate and technically direct functional safety activities across customer, TTL, OEM, Tier-1 and specialist partner teams, ensuring clear ownership and consistent engineering quality.
- Develop, maintain and support governance of the Functional Safety Plan, including lifecycle activities, responsibilities, milestones, dependencies, reviews, evidence and completion status.
- Lead or assure Item Definition, Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment, ASIL classification, Safety Goals and Functional Safety Concept development.
- Lead or assure Technical Safety Concepts, functional and technical safety requirements, allocation to systems, hardware, software and external measures, and bidirectional traceability to verification evidence.
- Provide functional safety leadership within powertrain and propulsion system development, including torque generation and control, engine or e-drive management, transmission interfaces, energy management, start-stop, thermal protection, diagnostics, degradation and safe-state strategies as applicable.
- Assess cross-domain safety interactions between powertrain, braking, motion control, ADAS, vehicle supervisory control, body systems, E&E; architecture, networks and external interfaces.
- Define and govern safety analyses including FMEA, FTA, DFA and dependent failure analysis, ensuring assumptions, failure modes, safety mechanisms and recommended actions are technically robust and resolved.
- Support system, hardware and software architecture development, including functional decomposition, independence, freedom from interference, redundancy, monitoring, fault handling and ASIL decomposition where appropriate.
- Develop and manage Development Interface Agreements and functional safety responsibilities across customer, Tata Technologies, OEMs, Tier-1 suppliers and third parties.
- Review and approve supplier safety plans, concepts, analyses, requirements, architectural evidence, verification results and Safety Cases; identify gaps and drive corrective actions to closure.
- Lead functional safety reviews and technical decision forums with powertrain, systems, architecture, hardware,



software, calibration, integration, validation, quality, cybersecurity and supplier stakeholders.
- Support confirmation reviews, functional safety audits and assessments, coordinating with internal or independent reviewers and ensuring findings are resolved with objective evidence.
- Maintain clear functional safety status reporting across work products, maturity, risks, assumptions, dependencies, open findings, supplier evidence and programmed gateways.
- Lead change-impact assessment for safety-related changes to requirements, architecture, hardware, software, calibration, interfaces, intended use or operating setting.
- Ensure safety requirements are linked to verification methods, test specifications, analyses and objective evidence, and that anomalies are assessed for functional safety impact.
- Develop, structure and assure complex nested Safety Cases across vehicle, powertrain system, subsystem, hardware, software and supplier levels, maintaining clear argumentation, evidence, assumptions and traceability.
- Support integration, calibration, verification, vehicle build, launch and production-readiness activities by resolving safety concerns, confirming release constraints and maintaining clear safety acceptance status.
- Mentor functional safety engineers and wider engineering teams, building capability and promoting consistent, pragmatic and high-quality safety engineering practice.

Knowledge / Experience

Essential:

- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical, electronic, automotive, control systems, software, mechatronics or a related engineering discipline, or an equivalent level of relevant experience.
- Extensive automotive functional safety experience, with demonstrable responsibility for leading safety engineering activities across complete vehicle, system, hardware or software development lifecycles.
- Expert working knowledge of ISO 26262, including concept, system, hardware, software, supporting processes, production considerations, safety management and confirmation measures.
- Proven experience leading complex functional safety workstreams and coordinating delivery across distributed engineering organizations.
- Experience developing and assuring Item Definitions, HARA, Safety Goals, Functional Safety Concepts, Technical Safety Concepts,



safety requirements and Safety Cases. • Strong practical capability in safety analysis methods including FMEA, FTA, DFA and dependent failure analysis.
- Experience of functional safety planning, technical governance, review, audit or assessment support, compliance tracking and programmed-gateway reporting.
- Experience managing safety interfaces and evidence across OEM, engineering service provider and Tier-1 supplier boundaries.
- Strong understanding of automotive E&E; architecture, embedded systems, hardware-software interfaces, diagnostics, communications, fault handling and vehicle operating states.
- Demonstrable ability to review complex technical evidence, identify safety gaps, make sound risk-based recommendations and drive corrective action to closure.
- Strong stakeholder leadership, facilitation, technical writing, negotiation and customer communication skills, including the confidence to challenge constructively at senior level.
- Experience using requirements, lifecycle or safety-analysis toolsets such as DOORS, DOORS Next, Polarion, Codebeamer, Medini Analyze, Ansys or equivalent.

Desirable:

- Strong functional safety experience within the powertrain or propulsion domain, covering internal-combustion, hybrid or battery-electric applications.
- Knowledge of powertrain controls and interfaces such as torque management, engine or e-drive control, transmission, energy management, thermal protection, calibration, diagnostics, degradation and limp-home strategies.
- Experience developing and assuring complex nested Safety Cases across vehicle, system, subsystem, hardware, software and supplier levels.
- Experience within the commercial vehicle sector, including buses, trucks, coaches, special-purpose vehicles or stripped-chassis platforms.
- Experience of multi-party vehicle development involving OEMs, platform providers, body builders, Tier-1 suppliers and engineering service organizations.
- Experience in Chassis E&E; and Motion Control systems or ADAS, particularly where these interact with powertrain or longitudinal vehicle control.
- Knowledge of Automotive SPICE and the integration of functional safety activities with systems, software and quality processes.
- Working knowledge of ISO/SAE 21434 and the management of functional safety and cybersecurity interactions.
- Experience supporting independent functional safety assessment, certification, homologation, launch readiness, start of production or field issue investigation.
- Recognized functional safety certification or qualification from TÜV, exida or an equivalent professional body is beneficial

📌 Functional safety (Maharashtra)
🏢 Tata Technologies
📍 Maharashtra