Safety & Quality Manager

ADASTEC Corp.; Fatih; On-site; TRY 450,000 - 750,000; Full time

Job summary

ADASTEC Corp. is seeking a Senior Safety & Quality Manager to own the safety lifecycle for flowride.ai, ensure compliance with ISO 26262, ISO 21448, and ISO/SAE 21434, and manage cybersecurity governance within a fast-moving ADS environment.

You will coordinate safety assessments, interact with OEMs and authorities, and lead quality initiatives across projects and field deployments, delivering defensible safety cases.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Electrical & Electronics, Automotive, Mechatronics, Mechanical, Computer/Software or Control Engineering). MSc is an advantage.
• ISO 26262 Functional Safety Manager/Engineer certification preferred
• ISO 21448 (SOTIF) training preferred
• ISO/SAE 21434 Automotive Cybersecurity training preferred
• Automotive SPICE Provisional Assessor preferred
• 8+ years of experience in automotive or safety-critical domain (ADAS/Autonomous/Robotics)
• Minimum 2 years of team leadership or end-to-end process ownership
• Excellent English (written & spoken); German/Dutch an advantage

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain safety and quality management system for flowride.ai across safety lifecycle and cybersecurity governance.
• Plan safety and quality activities per project: scope, gates, resources, timing; track to completion.
• Interface with external assessors, consultancies, service bodies, and regulatory authorities; define scope and evidence expectations.
• Manage safety & quality relationships with OEMs and integration partners; define requirements and interfaces.
• Own safety case and ensure evidence is traceable and defendable before assessors.
• Support field safety and quality across deployed sites.
• Lead Safety & Quality studies; define structure, workload, and development plan.
• Report safety status, risks, and issues to executives; provide input to tenders and safety agreements

Skills

English proficiency

Safety management

Planning & project management

Stakeholder management

Regulatory interface

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

MSc degree (advantage)

Tools

ISO 26262

ISO 21448 (SOTIF)

ISO/SAE 21434

Automotive SPICE

Job description

ADASTEC delivers SAE Level-4 Automated Driving Software Platform for commercial vehicles to enable OEMs to develop modern, automated, shared, and connected commercial vehicles. ADASTEC flowride.ai SAE Level-4 Automated Driving Software Platform integrated buses are on public roads in 14 countries in Europe & North America.

flowride.ai is designed with the fusion of different high-precision sensors available in the global market and complies with safety standards and regulations.

ADASTEC has an HQ and operation office in Michigan, USA, an EU Operations office in the Netherlands, Germany, and an R&D Office in Türkiye. For more information, visit www.adastec.com

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Owning and maintaining the safety and quality management system for flowride.ai: the safety lifecycle (ISO 26262, ISO 21448, ISO 22737, UL 4600), cybersecurity governance (ISO/SAE 21434) and the process quality framework (ISO 9001, Automotive SPICE), tailored to a Level-4 ADS and to the way the company actually works.
• Planning safety and quality activities for every project and release - scope, work products, gates, resources and timing - track them to completion, and escalating clearly when a release is not ready to ship.
• Acting as ADASTEC's primary interface to external safety assessors, independent consultancies, technical services, certification bodies and type-approval / regulatory authorities: agreeing assessment scope and evidence expectations, running audits and assessments, and closing findings.
• Managing the safety and quality relationship with the OEM and integration partners (e.g. the bus platform OEM): interface and vehicle-level safety requirements, development interface agreements, joint hazard analysis, and field issue handling.
• Owning the safety case - its argument structure, completeness and consistency - and making sure the evidence produced by the engineering teams is traceable and defensible in front of a third party.
• Supporting field safety and quality across deployed sites
• Leading the Safety and Quality studies; defining its structure, workload and development plan.
• Reporting safety and quality status, risks and open issues to executive management on an agreed cadence.
• Providing safety and quality input to tenders, customer documentation, and operational safety agreements with transit operators and site owners.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree from reputable universities in engineering - Electrical & Electronics, Automotive, Mechatronics, Mechanical, Computer/Software or Control Engineering. Havind a MSc degree is an advantage.
• Having the below certificates:
• ISO 26262 Functional Safety Manager / Engineer certification (TÜV SÜD or equivalent) - preferred
• ISO 21448 (SOTIF) training - preferred
• ISO/SAE 21434 Automotive Cybersecurity training - preferred
• Automotive SPICE Provisional Assessor (intacs) - preferred
• Having 8+ years of significant experience in automotive or another safety-critical domain, especially in ADAS/AD, autonomous vehicles or robotics.
• Minimum 2 years of team leadership or end-to-end process ownership is a must.
• Experience working in a fast-paced start-up or scale-up environment is preferred. Proven, hands-on experience engaging directly with regulatory authorities, technical services, or independent assessors is a mandatory requirement for this position.
• Excellent command of English, both written and spoken.
• Proficiency in additional languages, such as German or Dutch, is considered an advantage.
• Solid working knowledge of the automotive safety landscape - ISO 26262, ISO 21448 (SOTIF), ISO 22737, UL 4600, ISO/SAE 21434 - and of how these are applied to a Level-4 ADS rather than to a conventional ECU.
• Familiarity with the approval routes for automated vehicles (EU Implementing Regulation 2022/1426, relevant UNECE regulations, national testing and exemption permits) and with how technical services and approval authorities actually operate.
• Process quality: ISO 9001 and Automotive SPICE, audit and assessment management, CAPA, requirements traceability, configuration and change management.
• Enough system-level understanding of an ADS - sensing, perception, planning, control, redundancy, fallback and minimal risk condition, ODD definition - to challenge engineers and to defend design decisions in front of an assessor.
• Able to structure, write and argue a safety case.
• Strong planning, prioritization and project management skills; comfortable running several external workstreams in parallel.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and negotiation skills in an international, multicultural setting; able to be the company's face in front of an authority, an assessor or an OEM.
• Comfortable in a start-up environment where the process has to be built while the product is being built, and pragmatic about what is proportionate.