Functional Safety Manager (human)

The role

The Functional Safety Manager drives the functional safety strategy across the product portfolio. This role involves establishing lifecycle processes, leading safety engineers, and compiling safety cases for human-robot systems.

What you will do

• Drive the functional safety strategy across the full product portfolio
• Establish lifecycle processes, safety plans, and governance structures
• Build and coach associated safety engineers across product lines
• Set priorities, establish safety plans, and track execution
• Coach safety engineers from risk assessment through to safety case closure
• Own the safety case methodology end-to-end
• Drive HARA, FMEA, FTA, and STPA campaigns
• Ensure requirement derivation, traceability, and verification across HW/SW/system
• Deliver defensible safety argumentation per product line
• Generate and ensure implementation of safety concepts in products

Required qualifications

• MSc or PhD in Systems Engineering, EE, Mechatronics, Robotics, or related field
• 3+ years in functional safety engineering
• 2+ years as active FSM
• Deep expertise in IEC 61508, ISO 13849, ISO 10218
• Working familiarity with ISO 26262, SOTIF, and EU Machinery Regulation / CE marking
• HARA, FMEA, FTA, STPA, ETA, reliability modeling, structured argumentation (GSN/CAE)
• Proficient in Medini, APIS IQ, DOORS, Polarion, or equivalent
• Proven track record coaching safety engineers in a fast-paced, multi-product environments

Nice to have

• TÜV FSEng, CFSE, or Exida certification
• Experience with autonomous or AI-enabled robotic systems

About the company

The Systems Engineering Department transforms market demands into safe, certifiable, and competitive solutions and architectures. Their mission is to enable seamless human-robot collaboration.