Senior Functional Safety Engineer (m/f/d)

Synapticon GmbH; Schönaich; Hybrid; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Flexible working hours

Hybrid work options

30 days paid vacation

Company pension scheme

Gym memberships

Health program

Birthday vouchers

Snacks and coffee

Team-building events

Zusammenfassung

Synapticon GmbH in Germany seeks a Senior Functional Safety Engineer to own and evolve safety tooling for Positron, our PLe/SIL3-rated safety architecture for humanoid robotics.

You will manage requirements and ALM integration, drive CI checks, and lead automation of review and release workflows while coordinating with external assessors and internal stakeholders. The role requires hands-on safety engineering across multiple projects and strong standards experience.

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years in robotics functional safety across projects.
• Hands-on with IEC 61508 or ISO 10218/13849.
• FMEA, diagnostic coverage and failure-rate budgeting.
• Experience with ALM/requirements tools: Polarion, CodeBeamer, Jama, DOORS.
• Hands-on with AI coding agents (Claude Code, Copilot).

Aufgaben

• Synchronize requirements with the ALM system and enforce robust architecture as product line grows.
• Design and drive CI checks to ensure traceability from requirements to tests.
• Own automation around review and release workflows with tool-qualification thinking.
• Lead responses to external assessor review protocols with stakeholders.
• Develop and refine requirements across product, system and unit levels; maintain traceability.

Kenntnisse

Robotics safety

Lifecycles

AI tooling experience

Safety standards knowledge

Tools

Polarion

CodeBeamer

Jama

DOORS

Jobbeschreibung

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Synapticon builds the motion control and actuator technology at the core of next-generation humanoid robots. As Senior Functional Safety Engineer you'll be working on Positron, our PLe/SIL3-rated safety architecture for humanoid robotics — one of the first functional safety systems built specifically for humanoids rather than adapted from industrial robot arms.

You will own the tooling that keeps our safety evidence coherent — requirement files, our ALM system, test annotations and CI all need to agree with each other — and you will build and evolve it working alongside AI coding agents, every day.

HERE'S WHERE YOU MAKE AN IMPACT

• Own and continuously evolve the synchronisation between our requirement files and the ALM system, making the architectural calls that keep it robust as the product line grows
• Design and drive the CI checks that enforce safety evidence rather than merely describe it — traceability from requirements to tests, and coverage figures that can be relied on — setting the strategy other engineers build on
• Take full ownership of the automation around our review and release workflows, treating these as support tools under the standard, with the tool-qualification thinking that implies, and drive improvements to how the team works
• Lead responses to external assessor review protocols, coordinating directly with assessors and internal stakeholders to track document versions and close open points
• Drive the authoring and refinement of requirements across the product, system and unit tiers; own traceability and gap registers; keep requirements and architecture diagrams consistent with one another, and guide less experienced colleagues in doing the same

WHO YOU ARE

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in robotics functional safety, including having taken at least one robotics safety project end-to-end — from concept through development to certification
• Proven, independent command of safety development lifecycles and workflows, gained across multiple projects
• Must-have — hands‑on experience with at least one: IEC 61508, ISO 10218, ISO 13849
• Strong grounding in FMEA, diagnostic coverage, and failure-rate budgeting, with the judgement to apply it independently
• Extensive experience with ALM or requirements tools such as Polarion, codebeamer, Jama, or DOORS, including tool qualification
• Real, hands‑on experience working with AI coding agents (Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor or equivalent) — be ready to talk about what you built, where it was confidently wrong, how you found out, and how you'd coach others to do the same

WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU

• A warm, international team that truly enjoys working together
• Plenty of creative freedom and the opportunity to make a real impact
• Flexible working hours and hybrid work options
• Short decision-making paths, flat hierarchies, and open communication
• Professional development opportunities and exciting projects
• 30 days of paid vacation
• Full-time position (40 hours/week) with a permanent contract
• Company pension scheme through Dyno
• Flexible working hours when life takes unexpected turns
• Company-supported gym memberships through Wellpass
• A company-sponsored health program (WLP app, regular physical activities, nutritional coaching, and more)
• Job bike program to support a healthy commute (optional)
• Birthday vouchers
• Snacks and fresh fruit for all employees, plus breakfast every Monday
• Free drinks and coffee, of course
• Regular global team-building events such as bootcamps, ski trips, and summer BBQs — spouses and children are warmly invited to Friday BBQ events
• Modern office spaces

About us

HACKING THE PHYSICS AND ECONOMICS OF MOTION CONTROL WITH DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY

At Synapticon, we are revolutionizing motion control for robotics and machines—right at the point of motion.

Our approach is completely new: we integrate previously separate components such as motors, drives, sensors, and gearboxes into seamless units. At the same time, we are digitizing performance and quality factors that previously depended on expensive mechanical manufacturing.

World-leading innovators are choosing Synapticon to pave their way into the future of intelligent, motion-controlled systems.

Be part of our success story –

in Schönaich (close to Stuttgart).