Your role
Your experience and qualifications
Functional Safety Engineering
- Develop functional safety concepts and safety architectures for robotic and mechatronic systems
- Translate applicable safety standards and regulatory requirements into technical product requirements
- Define safety-related functions, safety requirements, and safety mechanisms
- Support the development of safe system architectures and fault-tolerant designs
- Review design decisions from a functional safety perspective throughout the development process
- Support portfolio-wide alignment of technology and re-use of technology if meaningful
Safety Analysis
- Lead and moderate structured safety analyses, e.g. Hazard and Risk Assessment (HARA); Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA/FMEDA); Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
- Determine required performance levels and risk reduction measures.
- Ensure traceability from analysis through requirements to verification evidence
Team Guidance
- Provide practical guidance to software, hardware, electrical, and mechanical engineering teams.
- Support detailed implementation of safety-related functions.
- Conduct design reviews and safety reviews.
- Mentor engineers on functional safety principles and methodologies.
- Act as the internal subject matter expert for safety-related technical decisions.
Required Qualifications
Education
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related field.
Experience
- Minimum 5 years of experience in functional safety engineering within industrial automation, robotics, machinery, rail, aerospace, or similar regulated industries
- Proven experience developing safety concepts for complex mechatronic systems
- Experience guiding multidisciplinary development teams through safety-oriented product development
- Experience supporting product certification and compliance activities
Mandatory Standards Knowledge
- ISO 13849 (Safety-related Parts of Control Systems)
- IEC 60204-1 (Electrical Equipment of Machines)
- IEC 61010 (Safety Requirements for Electrical Equipment)
- UL 1740 (Robots and Robotic Equipment)
- Strong understanding of machinery safety regulations and market access requirements for both Europe and North America.
About us
At FRANKA ROBOTICS - we build robots with ethics, which comes with great responsibility, creating state-of-the-art award-winning technology made to improve human lives and change our world for the better. Every day is filled with hard and exciting work, and the ability to take game-changing decisions from day one. We seek a hands-on mindset of those who strive for results, but enjoy the process of getting there.
Franka Robotics GmbH, formerly known as Franka Emika, is a fully owned subsidiary of Agile Robots SE. Agile Robots SE is an international high-tech company based in Munich (GER) with a production site in Kaufbeuren and more than 1900 employees worldwide.
We have great plans – we have great people
– Do you want to become part of our FRANKA ROBOTICS Team?
Functional Safety Expert (all genders) in München Arbeitgeber: Franka Robotics
Franka Robotics ist ein hervorragender Arbeitgeber, der sich durch finanzielle Stabilität und ein unterstützendes Arbeitsumfeld auszeichnet. Wir bieten unseren Mitarbeitern nicht nur vielfältige Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten und herausfordernde Projekte, sondern auch ein wettbewerbsfähiges Leistungspaket, das eine betriebliche Altersvorsorge, Krankenversicherung und Kinderbetreuungszuschüsse umfasst. Unser zentral gelegener Standort in München mit exzellenter Anbindung an den öffentlichen Nahverkehr fördert die Vernetzung innerhalb eines internationalen Teams, das in einer engagierten und gemeinschaftlichen Atmosphäre zusammenarbeitet.
