Senior Electronics Engineer - Functional Safety for Robots

RIVR Technologies AG; Zürich; Vor Ort; CHF 120.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

RIVR Technologies AG, a leading robotics safety innovator, seeks a Senior Electronics Engineer – Functional Safety to own hardware-level safety design for our autonomous robots. You will implement fault-tolerant circuits, perform FMEDA, and verify SIL targets while collaborating with firmware and systems teams to integrate safety across the stack.

The role demands hands-on schematics work, experience with IEC 61508/ISO 26262, and a track record delivering safety-certified PCB designs.

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years designing electronics hardware for Functional Safety–certified products.
• Experience with IEC 61508, ISO 13849, or ISO 26262.
• PCB-level hardware delivering SIL 2 or SIL 3 (or equivalent PL d/e, ASIL B–D).
• Background in analog, power, or mixed-signal circuit design.
• Hands-on safety architectures in schematics — not just block diagrams.
• FMEDA and SIL metrics calculations on own designs.
• Understanding failure rate data sources and component derating.

Aufgaben

• Design fault-tolerant circuits for safety-critical subsystems, selecting appropriate safety architectures (e.g., 1oo2, 1oo2D) based on the required SIL target.
• Implement hardware diagnostic and monitoring mechanisms to detect dangerous failures.
• Design circuits that enforce a defined safe state when a fault is detected.
• Apply Common-Cause Failure mitigation techniques at the component and PCB level.
• Perform FMEDA on your own schematics — identifying failure modes per component and calculating Safe Failure Fraction (SFF) and Diagnostic Coverage (DC).
• Build Reliability Block Diagrams and compute SIL metrics to verify your designs meet the target.
• Select and derate components based on failure rate data, mission profiles, and expected lifetime.
• Advise system architects on hardware safety constraints and review PCB layouts for safety compliance.
• Collaborate with electronics, firmware, and systems engineering teams to integrate safety functions into the overall robot design.
• Create and maintain Functional Safety documentation for your hardware modules.

Kenntnisse

Hardware design

Safety standards experience

FMEDA calculations

SIL metrics

Debug fault-tolerant hardware

Cross-functional collaboration

Analog/mixed-signal design

Circuit simulation (SPICE)

Circuit reliability

Failure rate analysis

Ausbildung

Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

Tools

SPICE

Safety-rated ICs knowledge

PCB layout for safety

PCB design tools

Jobbeschreibung

RIVR Technologies AG, a leading robotics safety innovator, seeks a Senior Electronics Engineer – Functional Safety to own hardware-level safety design for our autonomous robots. You will implement fault-tolerant circuits, perform FMEDA, and verify SIL targets while collaborating with firmware and systems teams to integrate safety across the stack.

The role demands hands-on schematics work, experience with IEC 61508/ISO 26262, and a track record delivering safety-certified PCB designs.