Functional Safety Architect
Velaura AI develops ultra-low-power silicon and software technologies for AI compute infrastructure.
Funding history
About Velaura AI, Inc.
Velaura AI is an AI compute infrastructure company developing ultra-low-power silicon and software technologies. Its Titan Core™ platform uses proprietary digital chip IP, low-voltage libraries, EDA flows, and design methodologies to improve performance per watt in AI accelerators while maintaining performance, yield, and reliability. The company also applies this technology to Physical AI systems, including industrial robots, autonomous machines, drones, humanoids, and edge devices. Velaura engages hyperscalers, XPU companies, and developers of next-generation AI infrastructure and Physical AI solutions.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will define functional safety goals, mechanisms, and fault-handling strategies for SoCs. You will lead safety analyses, establish safety processes, develop safety cases, embed requirements across hardware and software, and coordinate certification and audit support.
Requirements
- Functional safety
- Safety-critical hardware
- ISO 26262
- IEC 61508
- SoC
- Hazard analysis
- Risk assessment
- FMEA
- FMEDA
- Fault tree analysis
- Dependent-failure analysis
- SPFM
- LFM
- PMHF
- ECC
- Lockstep
- BIST
- RTL
- Firmware
- Platform software
- Safety case
- Technical communication
Responsibilities
- Define SoC functional safety architecture, goals, mechanisms, and fault-handling strategies
- Lead hazard, risk, failure-mode, fault-tree, and dependent-failure analyses
- Derive quantitative safety metrics and diagnostic-coverage targets
- Define safety mechanisms for compute, AI, memory, and interconnect subsystems
- Embed safety requirements into RTL, boot flows, and SDKs
- Own safety cases and safety-lifecycle work products
- Coordinate with assessors and customers for certification and audits
- Establish functional safety processes and mentor engineers
- Manage interfaces between functional safety, cybersecurity, reliability, and SOTIF
Benefits
- Equity compensation
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Paid time off
- Flexible work arrangements