Lordstown Motors Corporation seeks to eliminate inefficiencies that exist in modern work by creating electric vehicles that radically improve the way work gets done. Cost effective for fleets, safer, and designed to be more productive than traditional commercial vehicles, Lordstown pickup trucks and fleet vehicles are built to fix challenges that limit modern work. With a focus on Integrity, Discipline and Collaboration, we are working to design and build the work vehicles of the future. Join us to make a difference!

Culture – as a Startup, we are looking for Leaders that want to create an organization and structure where you can make an impact, have your voice heard, ambitious to step up to dynamic challenges and be accountable, like everyone else in the company, for your results.

What you will do

As a member of the electrical systems group, the Vehicle EE Systems Functional Safety Engineer is responsible for leading the functional safety efforts to assure compliance to ISO-26262 from the component up through the full vehicle level.

Responsibilities

• Lead all actions/tasks related to functional safety according ISO 26262, in all relevant phases of the project
• Lead the development of the item definition, ‘hazard analysis and risk assessment’, and functional safety concept
• Drive activities to establish functional safety requirements for system components and ECU software and hardware work products
• Establish the ‘functional safety culture’ at Lordstown Motors and integrate the safety processes into the engineering development process
• Own the technical concept and architectural approaches for functional safety in for future features and/or models
• Support system and sub-system design with respect to System FMEA and Fault Tree Analysis
• Work with Tier-1 suppliers to assure component level adherence and traceability to the functional safety concept
• Develop test cases for vehicle and system evaluation for bench and HIL testing.
• Coordinate cross functional system reviews to identify and resolve unpredicted issues.
• Develop approach to establish balance between functional safety objectives of high risk customer facing outcomes and protecting hardware
• Cascade safety requirements to the system, sub-system, and component level
• Provide guidance on the technical correctness according to ISO-26262
• Establish and align ASIL classifications for each system, sub-system, and component
• Oversee the functional safety process through the complete lifecycle of the vehicle

• Minimum of 7 years functional safety development
• BS Electrical, Mechanical, or Control systems; master’s degree preferred
• High level of oral and written communication skills
• Knowledge of ECU control systems, vehicle networking, and ECU hardware development
• Problem solving experience where issues are unusual and difficult
• Previous OEM and Tier-1 automotive functional safety experience
• Complete knowledge and understanding of ISO-26262
• Experience with requirements documentation systems such as Doors and Polarion

Ideal Candidate Qualifications

• Hybrid or Electric Vehicle experience
• Familiarity with the light to mid-duty truck segment
• Experience using functional safety development tools

Lordstown Motors provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.