Functional Safety Manager

Overview

In this role you support Automotive and Robotics initiatives by strengthening Functional Safety, Cybersecurity, and Quality practices. You will collaborate with global engineering and business teams to align with industry standards, drive certification readiness, and improve governance and efficiency. You’ll conduct independent reviews and assessments to close gaps and elevate engineering practices across Automotive, Robotics, and Physical AI technologies. This position offers the opportunity to shape compliance processes at scale and contribute to cutting-edge tech platforms in a global company.

Pay / Benefits

• Hybrid Working
• support for accommodations during recruitment

Responsibilities

• Support Automotive and Robotics programmes through development, assessment, and certification, aligning with standards and customer requirements.
• Perform independent reviews, internal assessments, and compliance evaluations to identify gaps and improve practices.
• Drive external assessment and certification readiness, review evidence and work products, and support closure of findings.
• Develop and improve governance processes, review methodologies, training, and corrective actions.
• Collaborate with global teams to enforce consistent Functional Safety and Cybersecurity practices across technologies.

Key requirements

• Experience in semiconductor, hardware, software, or system development within safety-critical industries.
• Practical knowledge of ISO 26262, ISO/SAE 21434, IEC 61508, ASPICE, or comparable standards.
• Experience supporting engineering teams with compliance, audits, assessments, and process improvement.
• Understanding of Functional Safety and/or Cybersecurity lifecycle processes and certification readiness.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management with the ability to influence global engineering teams.

• strong communication
• stakeholder management
• analytical thinking
• Functional Safety
• Cybersecurity
• ISO 26262

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