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BrightDrop - Product Safety Integration Engineer

  • Emplacement
    • Milford, Michigan
  • Horaire Full time
  • Posté

Description

The Role

Our BrightDrop System Safety team is currently seeking a Safety Integration Engineer to be the primary point of contact for product safety integration and verification/validation discussions and decisions for multiple stand-alone and integrated first and last mile non-vehicle delivery products and devices, including our Trace electric carts and loading systems. The position is responsible for ensuring that the development of our products is safe for the end-user in support of all program phases, from testing through development to production. This position requires providing consistent and timely execution of our evolving System Safety processes. We are looking for innovative, highly energetic, technically inclined people who have strong attention to detail and enjoy hands-on interactions with internal and external stakeholders. We are looking for individuals who can work with high-performing, dynamic teams in an agile development environment, as well as people who are interested in cultivating and improving product safety policies, processes and testing.

Key Responsibilities

  • Support definition of the validation and verification plan for safety requirements that evaluates all safety aspects as part of end-to-end product implementation

  • Drive development and communication of safety test cases based on safety requirements

  • Support review of validation and verification results to ensure adherence to safety requirements

  • Review all safety documentation provided for product development and certify completeness in accordance with established safety processes

  • Establish overall product safety usage criteria for testing, development, and production phases

  • Develop processes, procedures, and training as part of risk mitigation for safe product operation

  • Ensure user adherence to product usage safety processes and policies based on product phase

  • Adapt product safety usage process and evaluation to meet product-specific demands

  • Partner closely with the cross-functional teams to address non-compliance with safety requirements and support development and review of mitigation meet development and production timing

  • Identify and resolve timing and resource gaps between product team and safety needs

  • Travel as needed (10-20% max)

Additional Description

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in engineering (mechanical, electrical, computer, aerospace, industrial) or another related engineering degree

  • 3+ years of proven post-graduation engineering experience and execution of responsibilities related to areas such as product safety, integration and/or validation

  • Ability to understand multiple end-to-end product safety aspects, including functional and physical safety; operational scenarios; and human-machine interactions

  • Ability to collaborate with diverse teams

  • Ability to simultaneously balance/support numerous projects with competing priorities

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Master’s Degree

  • 5+ years of engineering experience performing integration activities for safety-related systems in non-automotive industries (e.g., consumer electronics, military, medical, aviation, transportation, delivery / logistics)

  • Previous proven engineering experience in areas such as:

    • Control system hardware/software

    • Use of embedded controllers

    • Propulsion, power, battery, charging and/or thermal systems

    • Software design/development

  • Demonstrated ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with unprecedented, highly innovative product solutions, where ambiguity and iteration are commonplace

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

  • Strong interpersonal savvy to facilitate effective collaboration between organizations

  • Experience with product- and system-level integration and testing

  • Experience with consumer product safety and related standards

  • Experience with providing onsite customer service for product operation and safety concerns

Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance. Benefits:

Benefits: GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more.

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