Staff Engineer - FuSA

Descriptions & Requirements

Job Description and Requirements

Staff FuSa Engineer We Are Synopsys is the leader in engineering solutions from silicon to systems, enabling customers to rapidly innovate AI-powered products. We deliver industry-leading silicon design, IP, simulation and analysis solutions, and design services. We partner closely with our customers across a wide range of industries to maximize their R&D capability and productivity, powering innovation today that ignites the ingenuity of tomorrow. You Are You have spent years in the automotive safety world and you know that functional safety is not a checkbox exercise. It is the discipline that keeps systems from failing in ways that matter. You understand that ISO 26262 compliance starts long before the audit and that the difference between a solid safety case and a fragile one is usually in the rigor of the work three months earlier. You are comfortable reading through a Technical Safety Concept, spotting the gap in an FMEDA, or walking a design team through why their architecture creates a single point of failure they have not yet seen. You do not treat standards as obstacles. You treat them as frameworks that make better products possible, and you know how to translate safety requirements into engineering decisions that actually stick. Working across global teams does not intimidate you. Neither does sitting with a customer who has hard questions about ASIL D compliance and expects answers that hold up under scrutiny. You bring structure to ambiguity, you build tools when the manual process does not scale, and you care about getting it right because you know what is at stake when safety critical systems go into production. At Synopsys, you will work on automotive IP that powers the next generation of self-driving cars, ADAS systems, and smart vehicles. The standards are real, the customers are demanding, and the work you do will directly affect how safe those systems are.

Own functional safety compliance for automotive DesignWare IP products, ensuring conformance to ISO 26262 across the full development lifecycle Develop and review ISO 26262 work products including Technical Safety Concepts, FMEDA, FTA, DFMEA, DFA, Safety Plans, and Safety Cases for digital IP at ASIL levels up to ASIL D Collaborate with global product development teams to integrate functional safety requirements into IP design, verification, and release processes Engage directly with automotive customers to address functional safety, quality, and reliability requirements, providing technical guidance and compliance documentation Build automation scripts and tools to streamline safety analyses, improve consistency, and scale functional safety workflows across multiple IP projects Lead and participate in functional safety reviews, audits, and assessments, delivering clear reports and actionable recommendations to internal and external stakeholders Maintain, refine, and enhance functional safety methods, templates, and processes to keep pace with evolving automotive standards and customer expectations The Impact You Will Have Enable Synopsys automotive IP to meet the safety and reliability standards that OEMs and Tier 1s depend on for next-generation vehicle platforms Reduce time to compliance for new IP releases by building reusable safety artifacts, automation, and repeatable workflows that scale across product lines Strengthen customer confidence in Synopsys IP by delivering rigorous, audit-ready safety documentation and responsive technical support during their safety assessments Influence IP architecture and design decisions early, catching safety risks before they become costly redesigns or certification blockers Advance the maturity of functional safety practices across Synopsys IP teams, raising the bar for how safety is integrated into silicon development Support the deployment of safer autonomous and ADAS systems by ensuring the IP inside them has been developed