Automotive Senior Functional Safety Specialist

Red Hat, Inc.; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Red Hat, a leader in open-source solutions, seeks an Automotive Senior Functional Safety Specialist to lead safety certification for their pioneering Linux car offering. Candidates should bring extensive experience in safety-related standards like ISO 26262 and contribute to the innovative safety culture within the organization.

Benefits

Flexible working conditions

Opportunities for continuous learning

Inclusive work environment

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience conducting assessments against ISO 26262.
• Familiarity with automotive safety standards like IEC 61508.
• Involvement in open source communities is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate safety certification for Linux in vehicles.
• Conduct reviews of processes required for functional safety.
• Coach teams to enhance functional safety efficiency.

Skills

Communication

Agile Software Development

Safety Assessment

Education

ISO 26262 Certification

Quality Management Certification

Tools

Continuous Integration

Linux

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16.07.2025

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30.08.2025

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Job Description:

Red Hat is rethinking how the automobile industry updates software in cars. Rather than adding more computing power to an automobile, let’s add wheels to a computer that we know how to ship.

The Red Hat Engineering team is looking for an Automotive Functional Safety Specialist to join us. In this role, you’ll be coordinating work with other engineers, architects, product managers, scrum masters, and community members to create Red Hat’s first ever offering of Linux in cars. This is a new venture with a lot to discover. As an Automotive Functional Safety Specialist, you will be a member of an engineering team that embraces psychological safety, enabling every team member to contribute to the joint success. The team will be focusing on the engineering activities underpinning functional safety certification. Your knowledge and experience conducting automotive functional safety certification would be extremely valuable to our continued . Successful applicants must reside in a country where Red Hat is registered to do business.

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What you will do

Collaborate with a team to safety certify the platform for Red Hat’s first ever offering of Linux in cars

Create and adapt Red Hat’s innovative functional safety life cycle

Conduct assessments of software products

Collaborate with internal and external assessors to ensure achievement of functional safety

Conduct reviews to monitor the execution of the processes required for functional safety

Perform safety impact assessments of software updates, bugs, and key performance indicator changes

Coach and mentor others to increase functional safety competency

Support the engineering teams for the functional safety life cycle activities

Bring your experience with automotive functional safety to discussions about software development and release processes

What you will bring

Previous experience conducting or assessing against international safety-related standards, e.g. ISO26262 (preferred) certification or other (IEC 61508, DO-178C)

Previous experience conducting or assessing against international quality-standards for the automotive sector, e.g. IATF 16949, ISO / IEC 33000, CMMI, Automotive SPICE

Experience with agile software development process, focused on short development cycles with demonstrable progress, and continuous planning with a team of peers

Solid written and verbal communication skills in English

Familiarity with Linux and modern operating systems concepts

The following are considered a plus:

Involvement in open source communities and understanding of how open source and free software communities work

Experience working as an RPM package maintainer

Experience with continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD)

Certified competence in functional safety

Certified competence in Quality Management

5+ years of experience conducting assessments of software against ISO 26262

About Red Hat

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