Mahesh Swamy

Principal Engineer, Quality Assurance Engineering @Sandisk

Bengaluru, IN

Responsibilities:• Develop and facilitate Functional Safety work products in accordance with ISO 26262, including Safety Plans, SEooC definition, FMEDA, DFA, FMEA, and Safety Event Management processes for automotive products.• Support ASPICE and ISO 26262 process alignment across the full development lifecycle, including system, software, hardware, and production-related processes, ensuring consistent adoption of safety-compliant practices.• Perform and lead confirmation reviews, audits, and safety assessments, while supporting future Functional Safety Assessment (FSA) activities.• Conduct requirements elicitation, decomposition, and traceability using Polarion ALM, enabling end-to-end compliance visibility.• Perform tool classification and qualification activities, including “increased confidence from use” arguments and toolchain safety evidence generation.• Support reuse evaluation strategies for SEooC-based development, ensuring proper adaptation of safety arguments for new/modified IPs.• Contribute to safety analyses (FMEDA, DFA, FMEA) and their integration into design and verification strategies to achieve target ASILs.• Facilitate process alignment workshops, checklists, and process reviews to prepare for ASPICE maturity evaluations and ISO 26262 audits.• Act as an independent process definer and deployment supporter, capable of functioning as a Safety Manager by defining, deploying, and monitoring Functional Safety processes, and performing I3 independent assessments to assure conformity to ISO 26262.• Act as PSCR (Product Safety & Conformity Representative), ensuring safety-related conformity throughout the product lifecycle and supporting organizational compliance with customer and regulatory requirements.