Manager, Safety Certification & Standards

What You’ll Do

• Own the standards picture across our products and markets IEC 61508, ISO 13849 and IEC 62061, and the sector standards our customers build to (ISO 3691-4, ISO 25119, UL 4600, ISO 21448), deciding at clause level what applies and what evidence satisfies it
• Serve as our named Functional Safety Manager: own the safety plan, the lifecycle phases and their gate criteria, competence records, and the safety case itself
• Hold the gates. You will be accountable at every lifecycle phase for whether our evidence is adequate and independent enough to say when it is not
• Author the safety manuals and subsystem data packs our customers depend on: IEC 61508-2/-3 Annex D content, PFHD and architecture data for ISO 13849 and IEC 62061 integrators, and the assumptions of use that make our capability claims valid
• Own our certification body relationships end-to-end: scope, submission, findings, and surveillance, and represent our safety argument to third-party assessors
• Run the regulatory watch: EU Machinery Regulation readiness ahead of January 2027, standards revisions, and what each one means for our roadmap and for our customers’ conformity files
• Close the loop from the field modification impact analysis and safety anomalies from real installations, fed back into the safety argument

What You’ll Bring

• 7+ years in functional safety as a practising engineer embedded, systems, hardware, or safety-critical software in industrial, automotive, aerospace, medical, or similar regulated domains
• At least one product taken through third-party certification end-to-end, where you personally owned a substantial part of the safety argument and defended it to an assessor
• Deep fluency in IEC 61508 parts 1–3, including what Annex D actually requires of a safety manual and how systematic capability is argued
• Working knowledge of ISO 13849 and IEC 62061 from the supplier side: what an integrator needs from a certified subsystem, and why
• The judgement to review safety analysis critically: to challenge a diagnostic coverage claim, a failure-rate source, or a fault model with a gap in it. In this role, you accept other people’s technical work rather than producing it
• Comfort with influence rather than line authority. This role has no direct reports; its authority comes from the safety plan, the gate, and a direct line to the CTO, deliberately outside the engineering delivery line
• A collaborative, questioning mindset willing to challenge teammates and be challenged in return, because safety depends on it
• B.S. or higher in an engineering discipline, or equivalent experience

Nice to have: TÜV Rheinland FS Engineer or Exida CFSE/CFSP certification; machinery and off-highway experience (AGV and AMR under ISO 3691-4, agricultural machinery under ISO 25119); safety-element-out-of-context or compliant-item work; EU Machinery Regulation readiness programs; autonomy and SOTIF exposure (UL 4600, ISO 21448); or time on the other side of an assessment, at a certification body or as a contracted assessor.