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About the Role
Join a motivating team of experts developing Electric Vehicle technology through innovative zonal architecture development.
Responsibilities
- Establish and continuously improve processes and technical pipelines for collecting, organizing, and presenting traceable evidences for Functional Safety release or sign-off reports.
- Define quantitative, evidence-based release criteria for FuSa sign-off, including thresholds for requirement verification coverage, safety mechanism test pass rates, diagnostic coverage metrics, ASIL-graded open-issue limits, and residual risk acceptance.
- Work closely with PMT to align FuSa maturity criteria to program milestones and gate reviews, providing per-domain risk profiles that surface gaps in evidence completeness and drive early visibility of domains at risk of missing gate criteria.
- Coordinate with FuSa domain leads, test automation, SW FuSa, HW FuSa, and PMT to align evidence deliverables against release schedules, driving pipeline efficiency for confident sign-off with minimal overhead.
- Develop and maintain automated dashboarding that consolidates release readiness, requirement coverage, open safety issues, and post-release fleet safety performance.
- Establish and track post-release safety performance indicators, including field failure rates against safety mechanism assumptions and safety-relevant DTC rates.
- Coordinate with external suppliers and Brand partners to collect, validate, and integrate supplier-generated safety work products and SEooC arguments into the vehicle-level safety case.
- Work closely with the FuSa Process team and VWG Central FuSi process team to ensure release processes align with ISO 26262 compliance expectations.
Requirements
- Degree in Electrical/Electronic, Mechanical, Software, Systems, or Computer Engineering (or similar).
- Over 5 years of experience in the automotive industry (or equivalent), ideally at an OEM or Tier 1, with at least 2 years in functional safety, systems engineering, or release/program engineering roles.
- Proven knowledge of ISO 26262, particularly around work product management, confirmation reviews, safety case argumentation, and evidence-based release assessment.
- Strong experience with requirements management and traceability tools (e.g. JAMA, DOORS) and issue tracking tools (e.g. Jira, Confluence).
- Experience defining quantitative release criteria and safety performance metrics, and building reporting pipelines or dashboards to track them.
- Experience with data visualization tools (e.g. Databricks, Tableau, Power BI).
- Ability to present risk and safety performance metrics to technical and leadership audiences.
- Good understanding of vehicle system functionality across multiple domains.
- Excellent organizational and coordination skills; ability to drive cross-functional alignment under tight release schedules.
- Good interpersonal and communication skills; ability to report clearly and concisely to senior management.
- Experience with supplier safety artifact management — SEooC arguments and supplier-provided safety cases integrated into a vehicle-level safety argument.
- Exposure to fleet monitoring, field quality data, or post-release safety performance tracking.
- Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and data pipeline tooling.
- Scripting ability (e.g. Python) a plus.
Skills
- Functional Safety
- ISO 26262
- Requirements Management
- Traceability Tools (JAMA, DOORS)
- Issue Tracking Tools (Jira, Confluence)
- Data Visualization Tools (Databricks, Tableau, Power BI)
- Vehicle System Functionality
- Organizational Skills
- Coordination Skills
- Interpersonal Skills
- Communication Skills
- Supplier Safety Artifact Management
- SEooC Arguments
- CI/CD Concepts
- Data Pipeline Tooling
- Python Scripting
Location
- Berlin
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Over 5 years of experience in the automotive industry
- At least 2 years in functional safety, systems engineering, or release/program engineering roles
Education Level
- Degree in Electrical/Electronic, Mechanical, Software, Systems, or Computer Engineering (or similar)
Benefits
- Competitive base salary
- Eligible to participate in our annual company performance bonus program
- Eligible for equity in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- Comprehensive benefits package designed to support the health, wellbeing, and financial future
- Health coverage
- Retirement savings
- Time off
- Family planning programs
About the Company
- Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is a joint venture between two industry leaders with a clear vision for automotive’s next chapter.
- From operating systems to zonal controllers to cloud and connectivity solutions, we’re addressing the challenges of electric vehicles through technology that will set the standards for software-defined vehicles around the world.
- By combining our expertise across connectivity, AI, security and more, we’ll map a new way forward.
- Working together, we’ll create a future that’s more connected, more intelligent, more sustainable for everyone.
Equal Opportunity
- Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law.
- We are also committed to ensuring compliance with all applicable fair employment practice laws regarding citizenship and immigration status.
- Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is committed to ensuring that our hiring process is accessible for persons with disabilities.
- If you have a disability or limitation, such as those covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, that requires accommodations to assist you in the search and application process, please email us at candidateaccommodations@rivian.com.