Functional Safety Lead Engineer

About us
Originating from Vietnam, VinFast is committed to the vision of becoming a global smart EV brand. VinFast has laid the foundation for the electric car and motorbike industry in Vietnam while passionately promoting the worldwide EV revolution.

With its Customer-First philosophy, VinFast relentlessly innovates and converges intellectual fundamentals in creating best-in-class products with the most affordable prices and outstanding after-sales services. In addition, VinFast provides everybody with the opportunity to use smart EVs while contributing to the creation of a smart, green, and sustainable future.

Job overview
The EDS Functional Safety Engineer Lead is responsible for driving all ISO 26262 FuSa activities for VinFast's Electric Drive System (EDS), including traction inverters, e-powertrain controls, and high-voltage components. This role leads the definition, development, analysis, and validation of safety concepts to ensure robust ASIL C/D compliance across next-generation EV platforms. The position requires close collaboration with system, hardware, software, testing, calibration, and manufacturing teams, as well as direct engagement with customers and safety assessors.

Responsibilities:

1. Functional Safety Leadership & Strategy

• Own and drive the ISO 26262 safety lifecycle activities across concept, system, hardware, and software domains for EDS programs from Concept SOP.
  
• Define FuSa roadmap, safety goals, and safety strategies aligned with VinFast process.
  
• Ensure safety work products for ISO 26262 Part 27 are complete and traceable to be comliant with ASPICE process
  
• Establish and maintain Safety Plan, DIA, Safety Case, Safety Verification Plan, safety KPIs.
  

2. Technical Excellence

• Lead creation of Item Definition, HARA, ASIL classification, and develop FSC, TSC, and define safety requirements for Traction Inverter, HV components, control algorithms, and torque path.
  
• Lead failure analysis (FMEA, FTA, FMEDA, DFA) and derive technical solutions to meet ASIL C/D requirements.
  
• Ensure correct implementation of diagnostics, redundancy concepts, monitoring, and safety mechanisms.
  
• Develop system / subsystem safety architectures for: Traction inverter powerstage and gate driver, Current/voltage sensing and protection circuits, Resolver / position sensor safety, Torque monitoring and torque derating, HVIL & isolation monitoring, Overcurrent, overvoltage, overtemperature protections, Loss-of-phase and short-circuit detection.
  
• Evaluate HW/SW safety architectures and confirm compliance with safety goals. Support ASIL decomposition strategies for hardware and software functions.
  
• Collaborate with hardware and software engineers to design and validate safety mechanisms such as: Redundant current sensing, Safe torque monitoring,
  
• Safe state transitions, PWM shutdown safety strategies, Hardware fault detection for SiC/MOSFET stages.
  
• Develop Safety Verification and Validation Plan for inverter and eDrive system.
  
• Drive alignment on safety concepts with internal design teams and external suppliers.
  

3. Project Management

• Manage safety deliverables, timelines, and cross-functional coordination.
  
• Ensure alignment with OEM customers on FuSa requirements, DIA, and implementation approach.
  

4. Assessment & Audit Support

• Serve as the main technical interface for functional safety assessments, customer audits, and internal ASPICE/ISO audits.
  
• Lead closure of safety-related findings.
  

5. Talent & Organization Development

• Mentor engineers on FuSa methodology, best practices, and technical solutions.
  
  

Requirements

1. Prefer Qualification

• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Control Engineering or related field.
  
• Functional Safety certification required (FS Eng / FS Expert ISO 26262).
  

2. Experience

• 5:7+ years experience in Functional Safety for automotive systems; Strong experience with ISO 26262 Part 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 work products.
  
• 3:5+ years specifically in EDS / Inverter / e-Powertrain FuSa.
  
• Proven experience leading FuSa activities across System, HW, and SW domains for ASIL C/D programs.
  
• Strong knowledge of ASPICE processes, requirement management, and safety lifecycle.
  
• Hands-on experience with system architecture for EV drive units and safety concept development.
  
• Experienced with DFMEA, HARA, FTA, FMEDA, safety case, DIA, and FuSa audits, assessments, confirmation reviews.
  
• Hands-on experience with HV systems, power electronics, inverter safety mechanisms, torque safety path, thermal protection, sensor plausibility, and diagnostics.
  

3. Core competencies

• ISO 26262 full-lifecycle management (Concept System HW/SW Production).
  
• Demonstrated ability to lead Item Definition, HARA, FSC, TSC.
  
• Knowledge of inverter control concepts, torque safety, safe state strategies.
  
• Familiar with DFMEA, FMEDA, FTA, safety mechanism design.
  
• Safety mechanism definition for EDS (inverter shutdown path, HVIL, desaturation detection, torque monitoring, sensor redundancy).
  
• Safety analysis leadership (HARA, TSC, FSC, FMEDA, FTA, DFA, DFMEA).
  
• FuSa requirements engineering and traceability management.
  
• FuSa integration with System, HW, SW, Testing, and Calibration teams.
  
• Safety validation & verification strategy for high voltage powertrain systems.
  
• Experience in ASPICE SYS.1SYS.5 and SWE/HWE processes.
  

4. Skills

• Skilled in analysis tools: Medini, APIS IQ, Ansys FMEDA, FaultTree+.
  
• Strong understanding of power electronics, inverter architecture, control loops, safety monitoring.
  
• Ability to derive FuSa requirements from customer SRS & vehicle-level safety goals.
  
• Skilled in defining HW/SW architectural safety patterns (redundancy, diagnostics, watchdogs, plausibility).
  
• Experience supporting safety V&V, test case definition, coverage analysis.
  
• Strong FUSA documentation & audit preparation ability.
  
• Excellent communication & stakeholder alignment (OEM, assessor, internal teams).
  
• Leadership mindset, with ability to influence design decisions.
  
• Ability to manage multiple safety activities in parallel and meet milestone timelines.
  

5. Certifications (optional)

• ISO 26262:2018 Certified Functional Safety Engineer (mandatory)
  
• ASPICE Provisional Assessor (optional)
  
• ISTQB Foundation or Advanced Tester (if applicable)
  
• MATLAB/Simulink Modeling & Controls (optional)
  
  

Benefits

• Competitive salary
  
• Premium healthcare package, including PVI insurance & annual health check-ups
  
• 13th-month salary & performance bonuses to reward your contributions
  
• Enjoy preferential pricing for services within the Vingroup ecosystem including Vinmec, Vinpearl, and Vinschool...
  
• Opportunity to collaborate with and learn from industry-leading professionals in the automotive domain.
  
  

Work Location:Technopark Tower, Vinhomes Ocean Park, Gia Lam, Hanoi

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