Senior Functional Safety Engineer

Senior Functional Safety Engineer

Time type: full time

Posted on: January 26, 2026

Job requisition id: R6354

What we need

We are looking for a Functional Safety Engineer to join our Functional Safety team. Reporting to the Director, Functional Safety Compliance and Regulatory Assurance, you will be responsible for coordinating and managing functional safety aspects of the engineering process in cross functional teams. As a Functional Safety Engineer your work will span from conducting risk assessments, developing safety concepts and defining architecture, creating functional safety requirements to define the risk reduction strategy of our Electronic and Electro-Programable Safety systems.

What we do

The Functional Safety team is responsible for the planning and coordination of functional safety activities in the development phases of the safety lifecycle.  The team routinely interfaces with multi-disciplinary teams across the business including functional safety management, suppliers, manufacturing, and customers.  The team is responsible for maintaining the safety plan, and for monitoring the progress of the safety activities.

What you’ll do

• Plan and coordinate functional safety activities for compliance to industry norms.

• Create Functional Safety awareness across departments.

• Perform safety management activities during all project phases including hazard analysis and risk assessment, DFMEA, FMEDA, qualitative and quantitative fault tree analysis.

• Collaborate with project managers, development team and customers on Functional Safety.

• Participate in the design process and provide professional feedback to achieve the safety goals of the business.

• Conduct reviews with product teams to ensure functional safety standards are met throughout product development cycles.

• Sign-off the design release for each step during the development process.

• Plan and coordinate functional safety audits and 3rd party assessments.

• Report and escalate proactively to Project manager and/or design leads.

• Travel of up to 20%.

What you’ll need

• BS degree in an Engineering related discipline, Master’s preferred.

• Minimum of 5 years of experience driving product safety and compliance in complex systems.

• Experience with product safety standards and regulations such as ISO 12000, IEC 61508, ISO 13849, RIA R15.06 / RIA Ra5.08, OSHA, UL and NFPA 79.

• Experience with system engineering approaches (requirements engineering / management, functional analysis and allocation, architecture design, validation, and verification) and experience with change & configuration management.

• TÜV FSE certification preferred.

Our environment

The base range for this position in the posted location is $125,000.00 - $171,600.00 however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The compensation package includes medical, dental, vision, disability, 401K, PTO and/or other benefits.