Senior Functional Safety Engineer

Based in Portugal, Wire IT is your specialized IT consulting partner with 18 years of experience driven by an experienced and senior team that helps clients make the right decisions in a fast-moving market.

Wire IT's ambition is to grow while keeping true to its nature: agile, people-centered, and fun. As we like to say: It's not only what we do, it's how we manage that truly make the difference.

If you're looking for more than just a job - if you're looking for a place where you can truly make a difference - you might be the next person to join WIRE IT.

Role: Senior Functional Safety Engineer

Location: Remote, Portugal (with occasional travel to Luxembourg)

Required skills:

• 8+ years of professional experience as a Functional Safety Engineer, Safety Architect, or System Safety Architect;
• Strong expertise in ISO 26262, particularly Parts 3, 4, and 5;
• Experience leading Functional Safety activities across the full ISO 26262 lifecycle;
• Proven experience defining Item Definition, performing HARA, deriving Safety Goals, and developing Functional Safety Concepts (FSC);
• Strong experience developing Technical Safety Concepts (TSC), including derivation and allocation of Technical Safety Requirements (TSRs);
• Experience designing system architectures with a strong focus on functional safety using SysML, UML, or MBSE methodologies;
• Experience designing and validating system-level safety mechanisms, including diagnostics, monitoring, redundancy, fault handling, degraded modes, safe states, and communication protection;
• Experience supporting hardware safety activities, including FMEDA, FMEA, FTA, and validation of SPFM and LFM metrics;
• Strong knowledge of safety analysis methods, including FTA, FMEA, DFA, CCA, Cascading Failure Analysis, and Freedom from Interference (FFI);
• Experience defining and executing verification and validation strategies for safety concepts and system architecture;
• Experience ensuring end-to-end traceability from Safety Goals through implementation and validation;
• Experience conducting safety reviews, audits, and technical inspections;
• Good understanding of automotive E/E architectures and technologies;
• Working knowledge of ASPICE (SYS.1–SYS.5, SWE.1, SWE.2);
• Strong leadership, mentoring, analytical, and communication skills;
• Ability to work autonomously in multidisciplinary and international teams;
• Fluent English (spoken and written).

We offer:

­No-term full-time contract;
Health Insurance;
22 days of paid vacation;
4 extra days annually (Carnival, Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve, Birthday);
Meal Allowance on card (Coverflex);
Referral Bonus;
Special discounts and flex options;
Training annual budget;
A great team-oriented culture;
Chance to become a part of a dynamically growing international company;
Challenging projects giving the unique opportunity to grow and learn.

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