Functional Safety Manager (Mensch)

The role

You will drive the functional safety strategy across the product portfolio. You will lead safety engineers and manage the end-to-end safety case methodology for human-robot collaboration systems.

What you will do

• Drive functional safety strategy across the product portfolio.
• Establish lifecycle processes, safety plans, and governance structures in accordance with IEC 61508 and ISO 13849.
• Build and coach assigned safety engineers across product lines.
• Manage the safety case methodology from end to end.
• Drive HARA, FMEA, FTA, and STPA campaigns.
• Ensure derivation of requirements, traceability, and verification over HW/SW/System.
• Create safety concepts and ensure their implementation in products.
• Act as the primary safety interface for management, certification authorities, notified bodies, and auditors.
• Monitor the regulatory landscape including EU Machinery Regulation 2023/1230, AI Act, and ISO/TR 23482.
• Drive cross-project lessons learned.

Required qualifications

• MSc or PhD in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Robotics or a related field.
• More than 3 years of experience in Functional Safety Engineering.
• At least 2 years as an active FSM including governance oversight and practical project work.
• Deep expertise in IEC 61508, ISO 13849, ISO 10218.
• Familiarity with ISO 26262, SOTIF and the EU Machinery Regulation / CE marking.
• Knowledge of HARA, FMEA, FTA, STPA, ETA, reliability modeling, and structured argumentation (GSN/CAE).
• Competence in using Medini, APIS IQ, DOORS, Polarion or similar.
• Proven experience in coaching safety engineers in dynamic multi-product environments.

Nice to have

• TÜV FSEng, CFSE or Exida certification
• Experience with autonomous or AI-supported robot systems

About the company

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