SENIOR FUNCTIONAL SAFETY ENGINEER (M/F/D)

We are looking for a functional safety expert in motion control to take responsibility for the design and development of our functional safety platform.

Our integrated motion products open up possibilities for advancing the state of functional safety, and we want you to help us bring these advancements to millions of people. With this new capability comes entirely new argumentation and creativity to design devices that help a robot manufacturer build safe systems. You will be deeply involved from concept through production.

Your input and guidance will be instrumental in helping us streamline the management and creation of our requirements and test specifications. The easier it is for us to keep good records, the better our safety solutions will be. Your ideas for improving processes help remove unnecessary steps and help get everyone moving in the right direction.

As with any senior level expert, you will mentor your colleagues and help the whole company understand how to think like a safety engineer. Other departments will come to you to talk through ideas, and you will help tweak their ideas into feasible solutions.

You are a creative and passionate engineer that enjoys the challenge of building safe systems. You enjoy working with regulatory and safety consulting bodies (such as TÜV), and are experienced in leading a team to bring certified products to market. You understand that innovation must be interdisciplinary, and you enjoy the challenge of building something that hasn’t been done before. You are perhaps a bit nit-picky, which helps establish foresight for the details.

You deeply understand the requirements in IEC 61800-5-2 for our industry. You are familiar with the standard norms, including ISO 13849 and IEC 61508, and have been trained in at least one relevant functional safety standard. You have no problem executing an FMEA, FMEDA, and conducting reliability calculations.

Knowledge of FSoE or ProfiSAFE (or any safe fieldbus protocol) is a plus. Maybe you’ve dabbled a bit in IEC 61800-5-3; that’d be helpful too.

We are especially interested in selecting a candidate that excels in clear and effective communication, both verbally and in writing. Excellently written specifications communicate your clever solutions to the rest of the world. Meetings you lead are informative, and everyone leaves with a common goal. You are excited to work on a team to build something bigger than you could do by yourself.

• 30 days paid vacation
• Full time (40 hours/per week), permanent contract
• Company pension plan
• We offer the possibility of working from home, depending on projects and tasks requirements
• Flexible working hours when life gets in the way 
• Annual performance and salary negotiations to align your compensation with your professional success
• An international team with lots of opportunities for career advancement

• Company support for gym memberships provided by Wellpass
• Health Programm supported by the company (WLP app, regular physical activities, nutrition consultancy, etc)
• Job bike to get to work healthy and fit
• Birthday vouchers
• Drinks and coffee (free of charge, of course)
• Daily snacks and fruits for all employees and breakfast every Monday
• Regular global team building events such as boot camps, skiing and a BBQ in summer. (Spouses and children are welcome to join the BBQ)
• Monthly culinary cultural events

• Highly competent colleagues who are experts in their field and happy to help you to learn and to grow
• Modern office facilities with lounge and football table 
• The beautiful countryside around the office at our location in Schönaich with nice transport connections
• Shared apartment (WG) upon to availability
• Visa sponsorship, if required

Hi! We’re more than 80 experts actively looking to expand our talent. 

Our engineering team is from all walks of life, countries, and cultures. Our diversity drives our creativity, and we look forward to having your unique outlook shape our product.

Working hours and location are flexible at Synapticon, because working families need that. Although you may need to be beside your robot for much of the day, we understand that sometimes getting away from the problem to think is the better approach.

Our unique SoC microprocessor has a massive amount of processing power, available to build unique, real world physics-defying algorithms right into the robot joint. We strive to use the best technology for the problems we are working to solve.