Systems Engineer - Battery Pack & Functional Safety

About Ample:

Are you ready to make a global impact? Ample, inc. is a cutting-edge electric vehicle battery swapping company at the forefront of sustainable transportation solutions. Our mission is to accelerate the global transition to clean and efficient mobility by revolutionizing the way EVs are powered. At Ample, we utilize advanced robotics to enable rapid and cost-effective modular battery swapping, making powering your electric car as convenient as a gas station visit. Our passionate team of technologists, designers, and environmental advocates is dedicated to addressing one of the most pressing challenges of our era. Join Ample and be part of our mission to make this accessible to billions of vehicles worldwide.

About the Role:

At Ample, you'll be part of a forward-thinking team dedicated to making a meaningful impact on the world. Our commitment to sustainability and cutting-edge technology offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of transportation. We value diversity, innovation, and collaboration, and we provide a supportive work environment where your ideas can thrive.

As a Systems Engineer focusing on Functional Safety on the Power Delivery Team, you will play a key role in driving Ample's functional safety efforts forward towards building a safe battery pack. Functional safety is a mission-critical part of Ample's product roadmap. You will serve as the primary owner for functional safety in Ample's system design for the Battery Pack and work in a highly cross functional environment decomposing product features into system requirements, identifying hazards and performing risk analyses, designing architectures to mitigate risks and producing safety analyses

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• You will support creating process documentation for key work products in development at the system level as per ISO 26262-4:2018.
• Derive Technical Safety Requirements related to the Battery Pack from the functional safety concept.
• Compose System Architecture specifications (both natural language and semi-formal notations) including static and dynamic architecture diagrams with standardized methodologies according to the ISO 26262 standard.
• Lead functional safety activities during the product development life cycle, including concept, requirements gathering, design, risk analysis, verification/validation, and release, working with a broad set of design engineers, program managers, and test engineers
• Perform FMEA, fault tree, HARA, and other risk assessment processes for new and existing products at the systems level
• Write/own documentation packages for functional safety certification reviews
• Teach core functional safety concepts in the systems design to our engineering and certification teams

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer science, or a related field
• 3+ years of experience performing functional safety design for automotive embedded systems and 5+ years of experience in systems engineering roles (3 with Masters)
• Professional experience developing compliant products to functional safety standards like ISO 26262, IEC 61508, UL/IEC 60730 or similar
• Deep understanding of the standard ISO 26262:2018 Part 4 - Product Development at the System Level, and its underlying rationale
• Expert ability to come up with System Design specification including semi-formal notations using SysML, UML or other system modeling languages
• Written communication skills to write requirements at the system level using industry best practice methods using tools like IBM DNG, Jama, or Polarion, etc.
• Experience in composing system architecture using State Machines, Data Flow Diagrams, Block Diagrams, Context Diagram, and other methods.
• Ability to derive, analyze and assess different failure modes and their respective hazards including qualitative and quantitative analysis methods like System DFMEA, FTA, DFA, and others
• Hands-on Experience in any Systems Architecture modeling tools like Medini analyze, System composer, Enterprise Architect, Cameo Magic, IBM Rhapsody etc.

BONUS SKILLS:

• Specific experience with distributed energy, power electronics, and/or lithium-ion battery design and/or safety evaluations is a plus
• Professional experience with risk mitigation strategies including static/runtime analysis, stress testing, coding guidelines (such as MISRA, HIS Metrics), software-in-the-loop testing and hardware-in-the-loop testing, etc. is a plus
• Experience working with Battery Systems that are (or targeted) ASIL-D certification for ISO26262.
• Knowledge of AUTOSAR architecture
• Experience designing Model-based systems design (MBSE) for safety-critical systems using any modeling tools like Cameo, MATLAB/Simulink or Ansys SCADE
• Working with MEDINI Analyze to assess Safety Goals, Quantitative and Qualitative FTA, Diagnostic Coverage, FIT rates, etc.

We are an equal opportunity and E-verified Employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status.