Job Description

Help shape the future of mobility.

Your Role

Owns the safety-related software architecture and ensures technical safety requirements are correctly allocated, implemented and verified in the software design.

Key responsibilities

• Derive software safety requirements and architecture from technical safety concept and system interfaces.
• Define safety mechanisms, freedom from interference, partitioning, diagnostic coverage and safe-state behavior.
• Lead software FTA/DFA and architecture reviews; manage assumptions and constraints.
• Ensure traceability to implementation and verification evidence.
• Coordinate with system, hardware, cybersecurity, platform and validation stakeholders.

Lifecycle-stage accountabilities

RFQ / Concept

Assess item scope, ASIL context, assumptions, estimates and reuse constraints.

Planning / Architecture

Develop software safety requirements, architecture, analyses and verification strategy.

Implementation / Integration

Guide implementation, manage deviations and verify safety-mechanism integration.

Verification / Release

Close safety analyses, traceability and release evidence for software.

Production / Operations

Support anomalies, changes, field issues and safety-impact analysis.

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

EXPERIENCE 10–15 years

Your Background

Required competencies

• Strong embedded C/C++, AUTOSAR/RTOS and ECU architecture experience.
• Practical ISO 26262 Part 6 knowledge, ASIL decomposition, safety mechanisms and software safety analysis.
• Architecture modeling, requirements engineering, verification and Automotive SPICE.
• Ability to lead customer and assessor technical reviews.

Preferred competencies

• Certified functional safety professional, model-based development, SEooC and SOTIF interface knowledge.

Expected outputs / measures of success

• Software safety requirements
• Safety architecture
• Software FTA/DFA
• Safety mechanism specifications
• Verification and release evidence

Why join Aptiv

• You grow at Aptiv.

Aptiv's winning culture is global by design. We bring together diverse perspectives, cultures, and business contexts to solve our customers' toughest challenges. In this environment, every individual can grow, lead, and make an impact, regardless of background, because inclusion fuels how we innovate and win. 

You make an impact at Aptiv.

One of the strengths of humanity is our drive to progress, to improve, to achieve more tomorrow than we did yesterday. People need solutions they can trust when it matters most. At Aptiv, you are building those solutions every day.

You have support at Aptiv.

We ensure you have the resources and support you need to take care of your family, your physical health, and your mental health with a competitive benefits package.

Your Benefits at Aptiv:

• Higher Education Opportunities (UDACITY, UDEMY, COURSERA are available for your continuous growth and development);
• Life and accident insurance;
• Well Being Program that includes regular workshops and networking events;
• EAP Employee Assistance.
• Access to fitness clubs (T&C apply);
• Shift allowances are applicable. Will discuss during the interview process.

Meet the next generation Aptiv

At Aptiv, we deliver innovative solutions that people trust when it matters most.

Progress is never static. It is about reaching further, exploring new possibilities, and enabling mobility. Aptiv empowers customers to create solutions people rely on—advancing safety and autonomy in Automotive and Commercial Vehicles, enabling mission-critical performance in Aerospace & Defense, and powering intelligent systems across Energy, Enterprise, and Telecommunications. We also drive precision and efficiency in Industrials & Robotics and support life-critical innovation in Medical technologies.

Guided by our winning culture and values to Think & Act Like Owners, as One Team, and Play to Win, we turn commitment into results and achieve more together.

Join Us to Deliver Innovative Solutions That People Trust!

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