System Safety Engineer

About the Team

Become part of a global team of System Safety Engineers dedicated to shaping the future of steering technology in our Commercial Vehicle Division. With teammates across the U.S., Germany, and India, you'll work collaboratively on high-impact projects to ensure our products meet the highest safety standards. This is an exciting opportunity to take on a key role in product safety, influencing everything from system design to customer safety expectations, while engaging with both internal and external stakeholders. If you're ready to bring your expertise to a forward-thinking team and make a real impact in the world of safety-critical systems, we’d love to hear from you!

What you can look forward to as a System Safety Engineer

·       Analyze EAS system safety at all levels through a series of formal safety analyses (including hazard analysis, Hazard Testing, FTA, Random Hardware Metric Analysis).

·       Responsible for product safety case, including checking and approving analyses performed by others. 

·       Act on the results of any safety analysis or validation test result to ensure that the safety and integrity of the electric assist steering system is not compromised in any way, including safety sign-off for system and software

·       Assist in the development of new system features, components and diagnostic algorithms that will improve the safety or reliability of the system or improve the coverage of the built-in protection systems. 

·       Liaise with the customer to set safety acceptance standards, to develop customer-specific safety analyses and to ensure that the customer’s safety expectations are met.

·       Ensure that the supply-base is fully aware of the safety-related requirements and responsibilities. 

Your Profile as a System Safety Engineer

·       Bachelors Degree in electrical or mechanical engineering, or related technical field

·       Minimum of 5 years experience in safety engineering with working knowledge of ISO 26262 as functional safety engineer. Automotive experience is highly preferred. 

·       Working knowledge in ISO13849 and SOTiF

·       Experience of safety analyses of electro-mechanical safety-related products. Including participation and organization of hazard analysis, failure mode effect analysis and fault tree analysis and hardware metric computation

·       Confidence to represent ZF with suppliers and customers and to take responsibility for the product safety release.

Why you should choose ZF in Lafayette?

·       Annual Incentive Plan

·       Paid Vacation

·       401k Plan

·       Health Care Benefits

·       Paid Holidays 

·       A strong diversity culture

·       Supportive Employee Groups and community outreach activities