Principal Hardware & IC Functional Safety Architect

• Location: Toulouse
• Come and join NXP and our Functional Safety Competence Centre as we shape the next generation of intelligent energy solutions with Power & Energy business.
• NXP collaborates with global leaders to enable sustainable, autonomous, reliable, and safe energy solutions, leveraging decades of experience in innovative, robust, reliable, safe, and secure technologies.
• Our Power & Energy portfolio addresses energy management, power conversion, and energy storage, with applications extending from automotive and industrial systems to data centers, energy infrastructure, and robotics.
• Within this dynamic environment, you will play a key role in defining and driving the Functional Safety architecture of NXP’s future power and energy semiconductor Analog solutions.

Your Role

As a Hardware & IC Functional Safety Architect, you will be a recognized technical expert responsible for defining the functional safety architecture of analog, mixed-signal, and power semiconductor products.

You will work across safety-related product developments, ensuring that hardware architectures, safety mechanisms, and associated safety analyses are appropriate to achieve the targeted ASIL and/or SIL according to ISO 26262 and IEC 61508.

The role combines semiconductor expertise with functional safety system and hardware. You will translate application-level safety needs into robust and efficient IC-level safety concepts, balancing safety integrity, product performance, design complexity, silicon impact, and cost.

The role addresses traditional automotive safety applications as well as an expanding range of Power & Energy applications, including automotive electrification, energy management, data-center power infrastructure, industrial automation, and robotics.

Key Responsibilities

Functional Safety Architecture

• Define and drive the hardware functional safety concept and architecture for safety-related IC developments.
• Translate system and application safety needs into IC-level safety requirements, safety mechanisms, and architectural concepts to achieve the targeted ASIL/SIL.
• Ensure consistency between safety requirements, product architecture, safety mechanisms, safety analyses, and assumptions of use.
• Identify opportunities for optimized and compact safety architectures, avoiding unnecessary complexity while maintaining the required safety integrity.
• Deliver Safety manual integration documentation and facilitate usage of the IC in safety related applications.

Safety Analysis

• Conduct hardware safety analyses, including FMEA, FMEDA, FTA, and DFA.
• Evaluate hardware failure modes, diagnostic coverage, dependent failures, and residual risks.
• Demonstrate the relevant quantitative hardware architectural metrics objectives.
• Ensure that analysis results are fed back into architecture and design decisions.

Power & Energy Application Scope

• The architect will provide functional safety expertise across semiconductor solutions addressing applications such as:
• Power management and power distribution
• Data-center power and energy infrastructure
• Industrial power and automation systems
• Robotics and autonomous industrial equipment
• Other safety-related analog, mixed-signal, and power semiconductor applications

Collaboration

• The Hardware & IC Functional Safety Architect will work closely with:
• Product, System Architects and Definition teams
• Hardware and IC Design teams

Functional Safety Managers

• Verification and Validation teams
• Functional Safety assessors and auditors
• Application and system engineering teams
• Customers and ecosystem partners, where appropriate

Your Profile

Technical Background

• Master's degree or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Semiconductor Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Strong experience in semiconductor hardware architecture, IC design, product development.
• In-depth knowledge of ISO 26262 and/or IEC 61508.
• Practical experience with hardware safety analysis techniques such as FMEDA, FMEA, FTA and DFA.
• Understanding of requirements-driven semiconductor development and the relationship between system-level safety requirements and IC implementation.

Leadership Profile

The successful candidate will demonstrate

• Technical leadership and architectural thinking
• Ability to challenge complex architectures constructively
• Excellent communication across engineering, management, customers, and safety assessors
• Ability to connect system safety needs with practical semiconductor implementation
• A pragmatic approach to achieving the required safety integrity with an optimized HW architecture
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