Lead Engineer-System Safety (109995-1224)

Location: University of Warwick Campus, Coventry

Duration: 24 months

About the Role

For informal enquiries, please contact Siddartha Khastgir (Professor - Research Focussed) at s.khastgir.1@warwick.ac.uk.

This position is part of our growing research portfolio on the role of safety of ADAS and Automated Driving Systems and will involve conducting an in-depth Functional Safety analysis for Automated Driving Systems, while working in collaboration with industry and academic partners. This role will require an understanding and application of international standards like at ISO 26262, ISO 21448, ISO/SAE 21434, ISO TS 5083, to build system safety cases for ADAS and Automated Driving System for various Operational Design Domains. Additionally, the role will involve using inductive and deductive safety and failure analysis such as FMEA (Failure mode and effects analysis), FTA (Fault Tree Analysis), HAZOP (Hazard and Operability), STPA (Systems Theoretic Process Analysis) and similar methods.

Successful candidate will be exposed to a variety of academic and industrial partners through a number of our research projects like Horizon Europe funded SUNRISE, SYNERGIES, EVENTS, i4Driving etc., and UKRI / Innovate UK / CCAV funded, UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, DriveSafeAI.

We will consider applications for employment on a part-time or other flexible working basis, even where a position is advertised as full-time, unless there are operational or other objective reasons why it is not possible to do so.  

About You  

The successful candidate will need to have strong knowledge and experience of functional safety processes preferably in the ADAS and Automated Driving domains, developing safety concepts and conducting safety reviews. You will also need to demonstrate proven experience in the fields of standards like ISO 26262, ISO 21448, ISO/SAE 21434, ISO TS 5083.

For further information regarding the skills required for this role please see the personal specification section of the attached job description.

CLOSING DATE: Sunday 19 January 2025 at 11.55pm

Full details of the duties and selection criteria for this role can be found in the vacancy advert on the University of Warwick's jobs pages. You will be routed to this when you click on the Apply button.

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