Automotive Safety Consulting with SRES
SecuRESafe (SRES) is a trusted consulting partner for OEMs, Tier 1 & 2 suppliers, AV developers, and EV manufacturers worldwide. We help automotive organizations design and deliver responsibly safe and secure products by consulting with their teams to develop and validate the systems, processes, and safety cases required to meet the industry’s most critical standards, including:
- ISO 26262 Automotive Functional Safety
- ISO 21448 SOTIF (Safety of the Intended Functionality)
- ISO/SAE 21434 Automotive Cybersecurity
- UNECE R155 & R156 Cybersecurity and Software Update Regulations
- ISO 24089 Software Update Engineering
- ISO/TS 5083 Autonomous Vehicle Safety
- ISO/PAS 8800 AI Safety for Road Vehicles
- ISO/IEC 42001 AI Management Systems
- EU AI Act
The automotive sector is evolving at unprecedented speed — electrification, autonomous driving, connected vehicle technology, and AI-enabled mobility are redefining products and processes. These advances bring both opportunity and complex safety, cybersecurity, and regulatory compliance challenges. SRES helps you meet them head-on, ensuring your products are compliant, safe, and market-ready.
Real-World Consulting Impact
Our consultants have supported functional safety, autonomous safety, cybersecurity, high-voltage EV safety, and AI assurance initiatives for some of the most advanced vehicle platforms on the road — and on the horizon. Some examples include:
- Functional safety compliance and certification, drawing on experience from hundreds of automotive OEM, supplier, AV technology and semiconductor clients in roles as a developer, consultant, and assessor up to ASIL D level compliance to ISO 26262.
- Autonomous vehicle safety management, safety case argumentation, and pragmatic strategic planning to achieve successful, fast-paced functional safety certification for highly iterative products like autonomous virtual driver software and complex autonomous vehicle control systems since 2013.
- Automotive software development, and supplier management on numerous production vehicle programs working with OEMs and suppliers including developing, testing, and implementing up to ASIL D level braking, steering, driveline, ADAS/AV and electric propulsion software for prototype and production vehicles.
- Safety-critical operating system and middleware, with respect to evaluating safety arguments framework, safety manuals and assumptions of use documentation for the global leader in autonomous driving GPU and operating system development towards ASIL D compliance.
- Automotive inverter development, and supplier management on numerous production electric powertrain programs working with OEMs and suppliers including developing, testing, and implementing production motor control software for electric vehicles while being responsible for designing new diagnostic code to reduce cost and increase reliability.
Shaping the Standards That Shape the Industry
SRES experts are passionate about safety and deeply engaged in shaping its future. We are an active part of the ‘ISO/TC 22/SC 32’ (Electrical and electronic components and general system aspects) committee and involved in the international working groups on Functional Safety and Safety and Artificial Intelligence working on future standards such as ISO 26262 Edition 3 and ISO PAS 8800 Edition 2.
This involvement allows us to stay closely connected to the direction of global safety, cybersecurity, and AI safety practices—helping us bring informed, forward-looking perspectives to every consulting engagement.
How we help the automotive industry
Why Automotive Leaders Choose SRES
Leading OEMs, Tier 1 & 2 suppliers, ADS developers, and EV manufacturers choose SRES for consulting support because our consultants bring decades of hands-on experience across safety-critical automotive domains. We’ve guided teams through complex product launches, major compliance milestones, and technical problem-solving under tight market deadlines.
Our work is grounded in practical engineering experience — from resolving late-stage safety case gaps, to integrating cybersecurity into vehicle architectures, to aligning autonomous system validation with evolving operational requirements. Clients value that we adapt to their environment, deliver solutions that work in the real world, and transfer knowledge so their teams can sustain success long after our engagement ends.
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Jody and his team have been instrumental for the safety of our organization. Their training programs, led by certified experts, equipped our team with crucial skills in functional safety. Simultaneously, their consulting services provided us with practical guidance to implement safety measures effectively. They not only helped us move forward towards compliance, but they also enhanced the safety and reliability of our systems.
During my time with Jody, it became abundantly clear that he lives and breathes his passion for safety. In addition to a wealth of knowledge and experience in established best practices, Jody presented an open mind to creating a safety case for a technology which was just laying its safety foundations.
I attended one of Jody’s ISO26262 training sessions, where he demonstrated a thorough understanding of safety-critical systems, a meticulous approach to standards, and a practical perspective that proved particularly valuable.
I have had the great fortune of contracting Jody Nelson for Functional Safety services multiple times over the past 12 years. He is the most experienced and most knowledgeable Functional Safety expert I have ever worked with. He has vast experience in many different product technologies, including significant autonomy experience, so he is a very technical safety expert in terms of architecture, safety analysis, requirements and verification. Additionally his experience spans the entire safety lifecycle and includes significant experience in safety reviews. He is the best in the business and the first person I call when seeking safety expertise.
Our company has utilized Jody’s expertise in functional safety for both organization competency development through formal training, and technical support for safety-critical product development. Jody’s professionalism and depth of expertise in embedded safety-critical systems and homologation have helped our company successfully deliver safety critical products to international and domestic end customers.
Truly appreciate - and can only recommend - the expertise of Jody Nelson that he has provided over the past decade. Thanks to Jody, we were able to implement ISO 26262 in our organization. It was great to have Jody on our side when we established the required processes and built the safety culture on top.