Bhadra Narayanan V.

Automotive hardware functional safety engineer with 6 years 9months of experience across transportation domains, including Automotive, Rail, Avionics, and Off-road. Skilled in verification, concept development, and IP analysis, with a strong academic background in microelectronics, specializing in embedded systems and VLSI design/verification. Nearly 1 year of full-time onsite experience in Dusseldorf, Germany as a Hardware Functional safety engineer for System-on-Chip and Video Signal Processor.

Previously worked as a Quality Assurance Engineer, ensuring process compliance, resolving non-conformances, and aligning deliverables with standards and customer expectations. Experienced in global project execution with customers across the US, Europe, APAC, and Japan. Proficient in implementing standards such as ISO 9001, ISO 27001, CENELEC, and ASPICE, and in developing quality management systems for automotive and rail projects.

Also, contributed to process improvements through automation using Excel macros for audits and test reporting.

Hardware Functional Safety Specialist - Tata Elxsi - Germany & Trivandrum

(2025-04)

Project: Functional Safety Analysis based on Part 5 and Part 11 of ISO 26262 For Video Signal Processing Unit and SOCs

• Directly interacted with customers at onsite, supporting and coordinating functional safety (FuSa) activities and aligning deliverables with customer expectations.
• Performed end-to-end functional safety analyses including FMEDA, and DFA to identify and mitigate hardware risks
• Defined, owned, and reviewed safety requirements, processes, and work products aligned with regulatory standards
• Created audit reports and assessment report as a compliance and confirmation readiness
• Implemented Git-based version control workflows for hardware development artifacts
• Designed and enabled automation-driven workflows, supporting CI/CD-style integration for hardware processes
• Led process improvement initiatives across hardware development and supplier interactions
• Drove status tracking and progress monitoring for safety and development activities
• Provided hands-on guidance and mentoring to hardware teams on compliance and modern tools
• Ensured consistency, traceability, and structured documentation throughout the hardware lifecycle

Hardware Functional Safety Senior Engineer/Specialist - Tata Elxsi - Trivandrum

(2023-05 - 2025-03)

Project: Functional Safety Analysis based on Part 5 and Part 11 of ISO 26262 For MCUs

• Review and Verification of safety goals, safety mechanisms, and safety architectures for electronic systems based on ISO 26262 and other relevant standards.
• Review of safety-related documentation, including safety requirements, safety
• Application notes, concept FMEDA and concept DFA.
• Generation and analysis of HLDRC and Hierarchy mapping
• Analysis and Verification of the Netlist and RTL using Verdi
• Testing using Fault injection and computation of FIT distribution
• Analysis of Safety mechanism and identifying its effectiveness
• Estimation of coverage based on the fault injection
• Preparation of Analysis reports
• Review of analysis reports to ensure compliance with target values
• Update of the Failure Modes, Effects and Diagnostic Analysis Report using Safety analysis tool

Hardware Semiconductor Engineer (Training) - Tata Elxsi - Trivandrum

(2023-01 - 2023-04)

Projects: Implementation of communication protocols - SPI, I2C, AXI-4, APB, AHB

• Design and Development in Xilinx-Vivado
• Verification and testing

Quality Assurance Engineer - Tata Elxsi - Trivandrum

(2019-09 - 2023-12)

• Review the Lifecycle Process and create/amend the document for compliances against SIL-4 of EN 50126:2017, EN 50128:2011, EN 50129:2018 standards for rail project
• Review and Analysis of the work products to ensure ISO 26262 ASIL – B compliance in Automotive projects
• Tailored process activities for Development and Maintenance project that were executing both in sprint and milestone wise modes in off-road domains
• Process definition including Review, analyze, and audit certification for the delivery of verified direct control coupling coverage through unit and target testing in Avionics projects
• Monitor the activities and conduct audits throughout the life cycle
• Define and present the metrics wrt quality, cost, and delivery

Master of Technology (Work-Integrated) - Microelectronics - Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (2023-07 - 2025-06)

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics & Communication - Sree Chithra Thirunal College of Engineering, Trivandrum (2015-08 - 2019-07)

Indian School Certificate - XII - Sarvodaya Vidyalaya, Nalanchira, Trivandrum (2015 - 2015)

Indian Council of Secondary Education - X - Sarvodaya Vidyalaya, Nalanchira, Trivandrum (2013 - 2013)