Engineer - Functional Safety

What You'll Do

Eaton announced, on June 11, 2026, the intent to combine its Mobility Group (including both the Vehicle and eMobility segments) with a new company. We expect to complete this process by the end of the first half of 2027. The compensation and benefits that will initially be offered for this position are based on Eaton's plans, programs and practices. If you are offered and accept this position and are actively employed by the Mobility Group when the transaction closes, the new company will provide further details to employees concerning compensation and benefits at that time.

Eaton is a power management company with 2021 sales of $19.6 billion. Its energy-efficient solutions help customers effectively manage electrical and mechanical power more reliably, safely and sustainably. The company is dedicated to improving the quality of life and the environment through the use of power management technologies and services. Eaton employs 100,000 people worldwide and sells products to customers in more than 175 countries. For more information, visit Eaton.com.

Eaton India Innovation Center located in Pune, India has an opening for a Engineer-Functional Safety in Reliability & Safety Center of Excellence.

Responsibilities

This role is established for Mobility business of Eaton in Reliability & Safety CoE team. The core responsibilities of this position are following:

Responsible for delivering safety work package(Design for Safety) for Automotive system solution (e.g. Electronic Transmission/Power system,inverters,power distribution unit) for electrical /Electronics and hybrid solutions for on- and off-road vehicles related new products introduction (NPI) programs without impacting project schedules. Typical deliverables are: program safety plan, hazard assessment(HARA), safety requirements, technical safety concept and implementation of requirements, verification & validation.

Deploy safety assessment framework with the help of senior safety professional.

Responsible to identify and mitigate safety risks under guidance & follow safety sign-off process for NPIs.

Job Responsibilities

• Utilize functional safety concepts / tools such as preliminary hazard assessments, Risk Management, Hazard and Risk Analysis, Safety Goal definition,Fault Tree Analysis, FMECA, FMEDA, Safety requirements identification, Technical safety concept,Fault Injection test plan,Verification and validation of safety test cases and Compliancy scorecard for NPIs and/or existing product improvements.
• Planning project milestones, executing milestones,conducting deliverables reviews, communication with stakeholder and on-job development through technical mentoring.
• Create, publish, and maintain work instructions for safety processes ensuring best practices are shared across the product lines
• Responsible for on-time delivery of FuSA tasks with assured quality
  
  

Qualifications

Bachelor's / Masters Degree in Electrical/ Electronics /Power Electronics engineering/safety/ reliability engineering

Bachelor's with 3-5 years of relevant experience or Masters with 0-1 year working in functional safety.

Skills

Understanding of safety standards like ISO 26262

Vehicle domain knowledge, work experience in the area of eMobility / vehicle electrification.

Awareness of DFSS etc.

Experience with any industry proven safety analysis suite of tools