Job Title: Systems Engineer
Location: Southfield, MI
Employment: Temp (8 months)
Industry: Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
Compensation: $95.35/hr.
Schedule: 40 hours/week
About the Opportunity:
- Lead the development of functional safety system requirements and functional decomposition for automotive systems.
- Review and approve HARA, Functional Safety Requirements, Technical Safety Requirements, Validation tests.
- Actively contribute to the definition or confirmation of the architecture in the vehicle from the perspective of functional safety.
Why You'll Love Working Here:
- Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability.
- Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries.
- People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work.
- Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates.
Why This Opportunity is Exciting:
- This role offers the chance to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while giving you room to grow and develop professionally.
About Acara Solutions
- Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.
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What You'll Do:
- Review and approve Development Interface Agreement and other necessary Functional Safety documents for suppliers and other external partners.
- Lead development of functional safety processes and tools.
- Oversee the program Functional safety readiness process and metrics
- Lead development of SOTIF requirements for autonomous driving and core subsystems
- Define the functional safety concept for the system, hardware, and software according to ISO 26262 standards.
- Collaborate with hardware, software, design, and validation engineers to ensure design meets safety requirements.
- Contribute to the decision making at various levels of management driven by systems knowledge and develop detailed requirements.
- Work with cross-functional teams to develop hazard analysis and safety concept
- Support functional safety validation tests.
- Work closely with internal teams and suppliers to define functional safety interfaces between project partners.
- Work in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving environment with little direct oversight in a collaborative environment.
What You'll Bring:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Electrical or Electronic or Mechatronics Engineering.
- 8+ years of experience in functional safety engineering in the context of ISO 26262 at an OEM or Tier 1.
- 1+ years of experience developing and delivering the major work products of a functional safety program.
- 1+ years of experience performing SOTIF analysis and developing associated work products.
- 1+ years of experience supporting external/third-party reviews of functional safety work products.
- 1+ years of experience with functional safety tools (e.g. Medini, APIS IQ) and requirements management tools (e.g. Jama).
What Sets You Apart:
- Master's Degree.
- Extensive in-depth knowledge of ISO 26262.
- Proven track record of successes, e.g. having successfully managed Functional Safety analyses of a system or product to make it safer.
- Understanding of the product safety responsibility share between supplier and OEM and ability to articulate technical issues and solutions to all levels of the business, within and beyond the engineering communities.
- Drive to be an advocate for safety across all levels of hardware and software development.
- Excellent writing, verbal and organization skills.
- Experience working in an Agile development environment and using related tools.
- Knowledge of CMMI and Automotive Spice and their role in delivering a quality product.
- Experience developing and delivering embedded system hardware or software.
- Our ideal candidate exhibits a can-do attitude and approaches his or her work with vigor and determination.
- Candidates will be expected to demonstrate excellence in their respective fields, to possess the ability to learn quickly and to strive for perfection within a fast-paced environment.
Additional Information:
- Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check.
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Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.
Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position does not meet the employment requirements for individuals with F-1 OPT STEM work authorization status.
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May 02, 2026