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Job statistics for Principal Functional Safety Architect (f/m/d)

Days open
6 days
Expected tenure
7 years
Estimated salary
$151,000
Based on Principal seniority, the Automotive industry and Germany market rates.
Technologies used3 tools
Test & validation
Hardware
Sensors & interfaces

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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.

Safety professionals at this company
  • 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).

NXP Semiconductors

Principal Functional Safety Architect (f/m/d)

Closed
Focus
Functional safety
Location
Munich, Germany
Posted
Sep 16, 2026
Source
LinkedIn

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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

  • 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.

Key Challenges

  • 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

Cross Functional Aspects

  • 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.

Job Qualifications

  • 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.

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