Principal Hardware & IC Functional Safety Architect

Location: Toulouse, France

Company

hirify.global develops semiconductor solutions for automotive, industrial, energy, data-center, and robotics applications, including power management, power conversion, and energy storage technologies.

What you will do

• Define and drive hardware functional safety concepts and architectures for safety-related analog, mixed-signal, and power semiconductor IC developments.
• Translate system and application safety needs into IC-level safety requirements, safety mechanisms, and architectural concepts targeting ASIL and/or SIL.
• Ensure consistency between safety requirements, product architecture, safety mechanisms, safety analyses, and assumptions of use.
• Conduct FMEA, FMEDA, FTA, and DFA; evaluate failure modes, diagnostic coverage, dependent failures, residual risks, and quantitative hardware architectural metrics.
• Optimize safety architectures while balancing safety integrity, product performance, design complexity, silicon impact, and cost.
• Prepare safety manual integration documentation and collaborate with product, system, design, verification, validation, safety, application, customer, and assessor teams.

Requirements

• Master's degree or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Semiconductor Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Strong experience in semiconductor hardware architecture, IC design, and product development.
• In-depth knowledge of ISO 26262 and/or IEC 61508.
• Practical experience with FMEDA, FMEA, FTA, and DFA hardware safety analysis techniques.
• Understanding of requirements-driven semiconductor development and the relationship between system-level safety requirements and IC implementation.
• Technical leadership and architectural thinking, with the ability to challenge complex architectures constructively.
• Excellent communication across engineering, management, customers, and safety assessors.
• Ability to connect system safety needs with practical semiconductor implementation and take a pragmatic approach to achieving required safety integrity with an optimized hardware architecture.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within the Functional Safety Competence Centre and Power & Energy business.
• Collaborate with global leaders, customers, ecosystem partners, and cross-functional engineering and safety teams.
• Contribute to sustainable, autonomous, reliable, and safe energy solutions.