About SiFive
As the pioneers who introduced RISC-V to the world, SiFive is transforming the future of compute by bringing the limitless potential of RISC-V to the highest performance and most data-intensive applications in the world. SiFive’s unrivaled compute platforms are continuing to enable leading technology companies around the world to innovate, optimize and deliver the most advanced solutions of tomorrow across every market segment of chip design, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, automotive, data center, mobile, and consumer. With SiFive, the future of RISC-V has no limits.
At SiFive, we are always excited to connect with talented individuals, who are just as passionate about driving innovation and changing the world as we are.
Our constant innovation and ongoing success is down to our amazing teams of incredibly talented people, who collaborate and support each other to come up with truly groundbreaking ideas and solutions. Solutions that will have a huge impact on people's lives; making the world a better place, one processor at a time.
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Job Description:
We’re looking for a Functional Safety & RAS Lead to help us build safe and highly reliable compute platforms for automotive, robotics, physical AI, data center, and other demanding applications.
This is an individual contributor role for someone who knows functional safety deeply and also likes working with customers and getting complex work done. You’ll work across the product lifecycle, partnering with customers, technical architects, and engineering teams to turn safety and reliability needs into products we can deliver.
What you'll do
Work with customers and internal teams to understand functional safety and RAS needs, from initial requirements and safety goals through development, assessment, release, and customer support. Partner with the technical architect to define the capabilities to meet customer requirements.
Be a go-to expert on functional safety, especially ISO 26262 and IEC61508 and how they apply to processor and SoC products.
Define program scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, and engineering resource needs based on customer and product requirements.
Keep work moving across architecture, design, verification, software, quality, program management, product, and customer-facing teams.
Make sure safety requirements and decisions stay traceable through implementation, verification, documentation, product changes, and releases.
Identify gaps and technical risks, including dependent failures and common-cause concerns, and work with architect and engineering teams to address them.
Support customer assessments, internal reviews, external assessors, audits, and certification activities.
Partner with product, sales, and applications teams on customer questions, safety documentation, and product integration guidance.
What we're looking for
You have a record of getting cross-functional work done across teams you don’t manage.
Deep knowledge of functional safety and ISO 26262, including FMEDA, fault modeling, diagnostic coverage, safety cases, and fault-injection planning.
Experience applying functional safety standards to semiconductor, processor, or SoC development and working directly with automotive customers.
Enough knowledge of processor or SoC architecture and development to work effectively with architecture, design, and verification teams.
Experience with RAS concepts and mechanisms, including fault detection, error reporting, containment, and recovery.
Experience running complex, cross-functional technical programs, including scope, dependencies, risks, and resource needs.
Familiarity with IEC 61508 or other relevant functional safety standards is a plus.
Active in the standards community, able to…