Functional Safety Assessor (ADAS and Body Controller Components)

Pre-assessments and review of the functional safety status for ADAS ECUs and body controllers, functional safety audits.

Tasks:

• Review of the functional safety status of the E3 1.2 system, hardware, and software in a pre-assessment
• Review of the functional safety concept, technical safety concept, architecture, FMEA, DFA, FTA, and safety artifacts
• Function development (fully variable valve train systems)
• Review of the project requirements, documentation of interviews
• Documentation of findings, issues, and deviations; generation of internal reports and safety approvals

Methods:

• ISO 26262
• Automotive SPICE Level 2, 3
• Agile methods, SAFe

Tools:

• Polarion, Codebeamer, DOORS Next Generation
• Enterprise Architect
• JIRA & Confluence, PTC, SVN
• IQ-FMEA
• Isograph

Which factors help in building and leading high-performance teams?

Tasks:

• Analysis and assessment of data from team leaders in five companies with different backgrounds, team sizes, and performance outcomes
• Statistical analysis and identification of factors with the strongest impact on team performance

Methods:

• Statistics
• Probability theory

Tools:

• Microsoft Office
• MATLAB
• Interviews

Requirements management and architecture for the middleware of a body controller system.

Tasks:

• Creation of the software requirements specification
• Specification and design of the middleware
• Use of design patterns DDS and publish-subscribe
• Design and development of statistics and reporting tools
• Requirements elicitation, import & export
• Management of change requests

Methods:

• Automotive SPICE
• IEEE Std 1233, 1998 Edition
• DDS, publish-subscribe

Tools:

• Polarion
• Enterprise Architect
• JIRA & Confluence
• C/C++

Definition of the system architecture for an airbag system for an OEM.

Tasks:

• Creation of functional, static, and dynamic system architecture with SysML
• Preparation of inputs for system integration tests
• Participation in creating system and software requirements and software architecture
• Execution of ASPICE Level 3 audits & ISO 26262 assessments

Methods:

• Automotive SPICE, MBSE
• INCOSE, SysMOD

Tools:

• DOORS
• Enterprise Architect
• PREEvision
• JIRA & Confluence
• PTC

Specification and creation of system and safety requirements for a body controller module.

Tasks:

• Coordination and control of delivering system features and functions
• Creation of a technical safety concept and development of a design FMEA
• System modeling with UML/SysML according to CMMI and SPICE
• Definition of test strategies

Methods:

• Automotive SPICE
• ISO 26262

Tools:

• DOORS
• Tortoise SVN
• Enterprise Architect
• JIRA
• SCIO

Management of system requirements for an OEM. Specification and development of new features according to ASPICE and ISO 26262.

Tasks:

• Creation of system and software specifications
• Review of test specifications
• Preparation of a requirements report
• Review of system and software architecture, safety analyses, and reporting

Methods:

• Automotive SPICE
• IEEE Std 1233, 1998 Edition

Tools:

• DOORS
• Enterprise Architect
• ClearCase
• ClearQuest
• Pkit
• IQ-FMEA

Management and coordination of hardware and software changes in the infotainment system for start-stop automation. Planning and coordination of test activities and launch of series production.

Tasks:

• Introduction of series production for the start-stop function for various vehicle models
• Coordination of hardware/software changes
• Alignment of timelines and milestones for different vehicle models
• Coordination of start-stop test efforts for infotainment
• Planning and control of tests on various test benches (Göpel test, test rig, HIL, vehicle tests, robustness tests)
• Assessment, planning, and control of bug fixes
• Reporting to the vehicle project manager

Methods:

• ISO 26262
• FMEA
• HIL
• SIL
• Göpel test
• Robustness tests

Tools:

• MS Office, MKS
• MS Project
• INCA
• SAP
• Blue PiraT
• BTE
• HP Quality Center
• Restbus simulation CANoe
• HIL/SIL simulation
• Robustness tests

Issue and test management for telephone systems. Validation and integration of telephone systems into the vehicle network.

Tasks:

• Support to suppliers and all involved departments
• Optimization of error detection, tracking, and resolution processes
• Logging and analysis of traces
• Device testing and troubleshooting, lab tests, and vehicle tests

Methods:

• CMMI
• SPICE

Tools:

• MOST Optolyzer
• MOST High Protocol
• EDIABAS
• NCS Expert
• HP Quality Center

Development of an HMI for a mini car demo at CeBIT for a premium automaker.

Tasks:

• Evaluation of an Intel Pentium M-based embedded system as a platform for an in-vehicle entertainment system
• Integration of MOST components (DVD, CDC, TV tuner, radio tuner, audio amplifier)
• Design and implementation of the entertainment system (two separate displays with Internet, DVD, CD, WMA, WAV, MP3, radio, MPEG, AVI functions)
• Configuration of bitmaps and functions via XML

Methods:

• SPICE
• Agile methods

Tools:

• MS Office
• Visual Studio .NET
• C
• C++
• DirectX, MMI
• Win32
• MFC
• GUI tools
• MOST NetServices
• Embedded Studio
• Windows CE
• Windows XP Embedded
• Embedded Linux

Design and implementation of a channel decoder for GPRS/EGPRS in a Xilinx FPGA.

Tasks:

• Design and implementation of a channel decoder for GPRS/EGPRS in a Xilinx FPGA
• Implementation of a universal channel decoder for GPRS/EGPRS and support for mobile base station testers

Methods:

• Hardware modeling/simulation/synthesis
• Agile software development

Tools:

• Xilinx Virtex FPGA
• ModelSim
• Simplify
• C
• VHDL
• Verilog
• Xilinx ISE

Design and development of a PCI MOST multimedia card.

Tasks:

• Hardware board design of a MOST PCI multimedia card and a VHDL MOST simulation
• Schematic and layout design
• Setup and testing of the MOST driver
• Testing and release

Methods:

• Hardware modeling/simulation/synthesis

Tools:

• OrCAD Capture
• ModelSim
• Leonardo
• Xilinx ISE
• Signal analyzer
• PE16 assembler
• MS Office