Position: Functional Safety
Location: Columbus, IN
Duration: Long Term.
Qualification:
- Master Degree in Electronics or Computer Science or equivalent degree experience in Functional Safety Systems Engineering (ISO26262).
Technical Knowledge:
Have Experience in implementing functional safety standards for common Automotive diesel engine components product and new products and variations.
*Systems Thinking** - Defines the system of interest by drawing the boundaries, identifying its context within its environment, its interfaces, and that it has a lifecycle to aid in planning the problem statement, scope and deliverables ; analyzes linkages and interactions between elements that comprise the system of interest by using appropriate methods, models and integration of outcomes to understand the system, predict its behavior and devise modifications to it in order to produce the desired effects. • *System Requirements Engineering** - Uses appropriate methods and tools to translate stakeholder needs into verifiable requirements to which designs are developed; establishes acceptance criteria for the system of interest through analysis, allocation and negotiation; tracks the status of requirements throughout the system lifecycle; assesses the impact of changes to system requirements on project scope, schedule, and resources; creates and maintains information linkages to related artifacts. • *System Capability Engineering** - Identifies system capability and risks through analysis or experimental testing of the system, sub-system, or super system in the context of its environment; negotiates and verifies requirements against capability to guide project scope and system development accordingly; assesses legacy system versus proposed new system solution capabilities and makes decisions as to how best to achieve system capability with consideration of stakeholder trade-offs.
*Product Interface Management and Integration** - Identifies and analyzes the interfaces and interactions across system boundaries by specifying the requirements and limits to ensure that the product meets requirements; controls the interactions across the system element boundaries by making sure that they remain within specified limits; integrates system elements by creating an integration plan, including identification of method and timing for each activity to make it easier to find, isolate, diagnose, and correct.
*Product Problem Solving** - Solves product problems using a process that protects the customer; determines the assignable cause; implements robust, data-based solutions; and identifies the systemic root causes and recommended actions to prevent problem reoccurrence.
• *Product Failure Mode Avoidance** - Mitigates potential product failure modes, by identifying interfaces, functions, functional requirements, interactions, control factors, noise factors, and prioritized potential failure modes and potential failure causes for the system of interest to effectively and efficiently improve the reliability of Cummins’ products.
• *Decision quality** - Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
• *Drives results** - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
• *Builds networks** - Effectively building formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside the organization. • *Resourcefulness** - Securing and deploying resources effectively and efficiently.
• *Manages complexity** - Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems
Other requirements:
- Must have excellent English written and oral communication skills in support of technical documentation of requirements.
- Must have a basic comprehension of Functional Safety control development: concepts, technical state of the art and relationships in modern electronics hardware/software.
- Must be capable of understanding and communicating requirements between and among systems, elements of the system of consideration (SoC) and those boundary interfaces to SoC for modern vehicles.
- Support engineer must be able to follow specific and broad directional orders for the generated requirements from lead system and technical engineers, and clarify contradictions within documented requirements to expectation of the leadership.
- Support engineer will have had training and a fluent understanding of functional safety related development processes within ISO 26262.Support engineer will have background in documentation using computer application tools in doing documentation using change and configuration process controls.
- Preferred support engineer would have some background understanding of internal combustion engines, both diesel and spark ignition (i.e. gasoline.
- Assist in selection, development &/or improvement of tools to support systems modeling efforts for Functional Safety working with Cummins Systems Engineering teams.
- Convert existing system diagram(s) into the selected tool.
- Create method & then create traceability links from the system diagrams to the system requirements already captured in Integrity.
- Work with team on conversion of existing requirements to new or revised requirements management tool, maintaining traceability linkages.