UIUC Research Park Intern - Functional Safety Hardware
$25 - $40 per hourRivian
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Role Summary
Internship Term: Summer 2026
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We are looking for a detail-oriented Hardware Functional Safety Engineer to join our engineering team. In this role, you will be at the front lines of ensuring our next-generation safety-critical systems—specifically High-Performance SoCs and complex PCBs—are robust enough to handle the rigors of real-world deployment. You will focus on identifying potential failure points through rigorous systematic analysis, ensuring that our hardware designs are resilient against both random hardware failures and common-cause dependencies.
Responsibilities
- Your primary focus will be supporting the functional safety lifecycle for hardware components t hrough quantitative and qualitative analysis.
- FTA (Fault Tree Analysis): Support top-down FTA to identify combinations of hardware failures that could lead to a violation of safety goals. You will help build logic trees to visualize and quantify the probability of catastrophic system failures.
- DFA (Dependent Failure Analysis): Conduct DFA to identify potential "freedom from interference" issues. You will analyze shared resources (e.g., clock trees, power rails, or physical proximity on a PCB) to identify Cascading Failures and Common Cause Failures (CCF) that could bypass safety redundancies.
- FMEDA (Failure Modes, Effects, and Diagnostic Analysis): Assist in performing quantitative FMEDA to calculate hardware architectural metrics ( SPFM , LFM ) and the Probabilistic Metric for random Hardware Failures ( PMHF ). You will evaluate the effectiveness of safety mechanisms in detecting or controlling hardware faults.
- Design Review: Review hardware requirements and schematics to ensure safety mechanisms (e.g., ECC, parity, redundant paths, voltage monitors) are correctly implemented to mitigate the faults identified in your FTA and DFA.
- Documentation: Contribute to the creation of Work Products required by ISO 26262 , such as the Hardware Safety Analysis Report and Safety Case fragments
Qualifications
- Must be currently pursuing a bachelors, masters, or PhD degree at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
- Actively pursuing a degree or one closely related in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering
- Foundational knowledge of ISO 26262 (specifically Parts 5, 9, and 11)
- Understanding of FTA (Qualitative/Quantitative) and the principles of DFA
- Ability to read and interpret PCB schematics and understand SoC internal blocks (CPUs, Interconnects, Memory)
- A "safety-first" mindset, extreme attention to detail, and the ability to explain complex failure modes to design engineers.
- Experience with safety analysis tools (e.g., Ansys medini analyze, Item Toolkit, or Reliability Workbench), preferred.
- Knowledge of ASIL (Automotive Safety Integrity Level) decomposition strategies, preferred.
- Familiarity with hardware description languages ( Verilog/VHDL ) or hardware verification.
- Practical experience with physical layout constraints that impact DFA (e.g., substrate isolation, power domain separation), preferred.
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Pay Disclosure
The salary range for this role is $25.00-40.00 per hour for Normal based applicants. This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, shift, and organizational needs.
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