Job statistics for Functional Safety for AI- Technical Lead
- Days open
- 36 days
- Expected tenure
- 7 years
- Estimated salary
- $138,000
- Based on Lead / Manager seniority, the Automotive industry and Germany market rates.
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Current safety team6 tracked professionals
- By function
- 2 senior / lead, 2 leadership, 2 engineering
- By level
- 1 senior
- Hiring now
- 13 open safety roles on FSTalent, including this one
Counts of functional safety professionals FSTalent tracks at NXP Semiconductors and roles it is hiring for. It is a sample of public profiles, not the full headcount.
- Ador Reodique — Functional Safety Manager
- Ankush Sethi — Product line Functional Safety Manager (MPU High end products)
- Antoine Dubois — System Safety Director
- Ayush Arunachalam — Functional Safety Architect
- Rohitaswa Bhattacharya — Technical Director, Automotive Systems Architecture - Functional Safety
- Xiankun "robert" Jin — Safety Innovation and Technology Roadmaps
Median tenure at company7.2 years
Median time employees have been at NXP Semiconductors, from its LinkedIn company page (as of 2026-09).
Functional Safety for AI- Technical Lead
Job description
Job Summary
You ensure that AI-based systems developed at NXP are safe, certifiable, and deployable by driving system safety architecture. You lead innovation projects for Safe AI, aligned with the centrally owned Safety & AI roadmap.
You also coordinate between different time horizons and ensure that projects transition between them successfully. Additionally you manage the “Safety and AI” innovation team, and ensure people deliver to their full potential while creating a career path for them
Responsibilities
- Own execution of AI safety across projects by translating the Safety & AI roadmap into innovation projects.
- Together with other experts, define system safety concepts for AI-driven features, convert AI behavior into safety requirements and mechanisms, and ensure fail-safe or fail-operational behavior.
- Coordinate innovation projects with NPI and applications.
- Collaborate with the enablement team to update NXP development processes to include standards such as ISO 8800.
- Apply model validation, robustness checks, fault injection, and runtime safety mechanisms, and provide feedback on gaps.
- Provide structured feedback to the Safety & AI roadmap owner and contribute inputs based on project execution.
- Accountable for the success of the “Safety & AI” innovation team
Experience
- An intimate knowledge of ISO-26262 is mandatory, IEC 61508 is nice to have
- A good understanding of the Safety and AI landscape is mandatory
- 10+ years architecting, designing, and validating safety embedded systems; Automotive environments mandatory, others are nice to have
- Solid understanding of AI/ML in embedded systems
- Proven delivery across complex projects.
- Ability to bridge architecture, safety, and execution teams
- A first experience as manager is nice to have.
- Desirable: Technical leadership .
Education
- PhD or Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Embedded Systems, with at least 10 years of industry experience.
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