Your role
You will be a member of the functional safety team whose task is to understand and analyze the certification requirements for a wide variety of robotic based system products up to and including collaborative industrial and medical solutions.
Your Responsibilities
- Contribute to the necessary safety assessments and in close collaboration with other development teams (e.g. embedded systems).
- Create and maintain technical documentation for safety-related projects
- Create safety concepts, carry out risk assessments, and write requirements on all system levels
- Support specification and documentation of architecture at system, hardware, and software levels
- Support the development of processes that comply with relevant functional safety norms
- Interact with relevant external notified bodies (e.g. TÜV)
- Support the development, verification, and testing of safety relevant functions
- Coordinate assessments from external certification authorities
- Contribute to internal change and configuration management
- Communication and co-ordination across system, software and hardware teams
Your experience & qualifications
Essential Skills
- Degree in Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field
- At least three years of experience with functional safety preferable in industrial robotics
- Sound knowledge of the safety standards for machines (e.g. ISO 10218, ISO 13849, ISO/TS 15066) and of the machinery directive
- Experience with functional safety standards (e.g. ISO 13849, IEC 61508) and their integration into the development process (e.g. tool qualification, testing)
- Experience with the creation and review of safety relevant system and software architectures
- Experience in safety analysis of the system, software and hardware design (FMEA/FMEDA, PFH calculation, etc.)
- Experience in working with external certification authorities, such as TÜV
- Familiarity with quality management, configuration management, and product lifecycle
- Motivated to collaborate and take on diverse responsibilities
- Fluent English skills, German language skills are a plus
Beneficial Skills
- Experience in functional safety management
- Experience with unit testing frameworks (e.g. LDRA, Unity)
- Common coding guidelines (e.g. MISRA)
- Knowledge of communication protocols like FSoE, CAN, Ethercat etc.
Why us?
Franka Robotics stands out as a financially stable and supportive workplace, committed to the growth and well-being of our employees. With a focus on development opportunities, we empower team members to take on challenging tasks and impactful projects, encouraging both professional and personal growth. We’re proud to host a diverse, international team based in a central location with excellent public transportation links, making it easy for employees to stay connected.
In addition to an engaging work environment, we offer a competitive benefits package that includes a company pension scheme, health insurance, and a childcare subsidy. We also believe in fostering a sense of community through regular company events, creating a workplace where our people can thrive both inside and outside of work.
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.
