Job statistics for Principal Functional Safety Architect (f/m/d)
- Same-title openings
- 1
- Days open
- 1 day
- Expected tenure
- 84 mo
- Estimated salary
- $151,000
- Based on Principal seniority, the Automotive industry and Germany market rates.
NXP Semiconductors
Principal Functional Safety Architect (f/m/d)
Focus
Functional safety
Location
Munich, Germany
Posted
Sep 16, 2026
Source
LinkedIn
Standards
ISO 26262IEC 61508
Job description
Business Line Description
NXP's CTO Competence Centre ( CC) is a central engineering organization responsible for safety architecture and management for NXP's Automotive, Edge, Audio , Analog and Radar Processing business lines. Team produces functional safety solutions covering the very wide-range of SoC solutions required by the business lines. The team is challenged to produce industry-leading functional safety solutions covering very cost-sensitive, low power devices to highly-integrated, high performance, multi-domain devices compliant with the latest automotive and industrial safety standards.
Job Summary
NXP's CTO Competence Centre ( CC) is a central engineering organization responsible for safety architecture and management for NXP's Automotive, Edge, Audio , Analog and Radar Processing business lines. Team produces functional safety solutions covering the very wide-range of SoC solutions required by the business lines. The team is challenged to produce industry-leading functional safety solutions covering very cost-sensitive, low power devices to highly-integrated, high performance, multi-domain devices compliant with the latest automotive and industrial safety standards.
Job Summary
- Deliver state of the art functional safety Platform and IP solutions to Automotive and Industrial products compliant with ISO 26262 and IEC 61508.
- Define safety requirements for Platform and IP modules.
- Support the management of Platform and IP modules developed as SEooC through its entire lifecycle, working in close collaboration with internal Design Teams.
- Prepare the safety modules for functional safety assessment.
- Support SoC integration of safety Platform and IP including implementation of IP assumptions of use.
- Safety analysis - / FTA / DFA and fault injection.
- Good working knowledge of ISO 26262 and IEC 61508.
- Experience in complex SoC and IP development compliant to ISO26262: Part 11.
- Experience with Safety Audits/Assessments.
- Experience in Safety Analysis Techniques (FTA, DFA, FMEDA), Fault Injection.
- Proven track record of leading IP , Subsystem or SoC functional safety development through all lifecycle phases and ensuring safety standard compliance
- Contribute to the functional safety expert community within NXP to improve our processes, our safety features and our marketing of these features to our customers.
- Define Platform and IP and safety features and roadmaps in-line with Functional architecture.
- Work closely with internal and external IP teams to define and deliver ISO 26262 compliant IP.
- Report to management on compliance status, gaps and mitigation actions.
- Support SoC teams to integrate safety Platform and IP assumptions of use.
- B Tech in Electronics Engineering or Computer Engineering or other similar discipline with at least 10 years of relevant experience.
- Master's degree in Electronics Engineering or Computer Engineering with 8 or more years of experience preferred.