Systems Engineer - Battery Pack & Functional Safety

Ample - San Francisco, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

San Francisco, CA

Real Estate

About the position

The Functional Safety Systems Engineer at Ample, Inc. is a pivotal role focused on ensuring the safety of battery pack systems within the company's innovative electric vehicle battery swapping technology. This position involves leading functional safety efforts, developing safety requirements, and conducting risk analyses to support the design and certification of safe battery systems. The role emphasizes collaboration across various engineering disciplines and adherence to industry safety standards, particularly ISO 26262.

Responsibilities

• Support creating process documentation for key work products in development at the system level as per ISO 26262-4:2018.
• Derive Technical Safety Requirements related to the Battery Pack from the functional safety concept.
• Compose System Architecture specifications including static and dynamic architecture diagrams according to the ISO 26262 standard.
• Lead functional safety activities during the product development life cycle, including concept, requirements gathering, design, risk analysis, verification/validation, and release.
• Perform FMEA, fault tree, HARA, and other risk assessment processes for new and existing products at the systems level.
• Write/own documentation packages for functional safety certification reviews.
• Teach core functional safety concepts in the systems design to engineering and certification teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer science, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience performing functional safety design for automotive embedded systems and 5+ years of experience in systems engineering roles (3 with Masters).
• Professional experience developing compliant products to functional safety standards like ISO 26262, IEC 61508, UL/IEC 60730 or similar.
• Deep understanding of the standard ISO 26262:2018 Part 4 - Product Development at the System Level.
• Expert ability to create System Design specifications including semi-formal notations using SysML, UML or other system modeling languages.
• Strong written communication skills to write requirements at the system level using industry best practice methods and tools like IBM DNG, Jama, or Polarion.
• Experience in composing system architecture using State Machines, Data Flow Diagrams, Block Diagrams, Context Diagram, and other methods.
• Ability to derive, analyze and assess different failure modes and their respective hazards using qualitative and quantitative analysis methods like System DFMEA, FTA, DFA, and others.
• Hands-on experience with Systems Architecture modeling tools like Medini analyze, System composer, Enterprise Architect, Cameo Magic, IBM Rhapsody.

Nice-to-haves

• Specific experience with distributed energy, power electronics, and/or lithium-ion battery design and/or safety evaluations.
• Professional experience with risk mitigation strategies including static/runtime analysis, stress testing, coding guidelines (such as MISRA, HIS Metrics), software-in-the-loop testing and hardware-in-the-loop testing.
• Experience working with Battery Systems that are (or targeted) ASIL-D certification for ISO26262.
• Knowledge of AUTOSAR architecture.
• Experience designing Model-based systems design (MBSE) for safety-critical systems using modeling tools like Cameo, MATLAB/Simulink or Ansys SCADE.
• Experience with MEDINI Analyze to assess Safety Goals, Quantitative and Qualitative FTA, Diagnostic Coverage, FIT rates.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Health insurance
• Flexible work hours
• Opportunities for professional development
• Supportive work environment that values diversity and innovation