Functional Safety Engineer

This Functional Safety Engineer role offers the chance to work at the heart of advanced semiconductor IP development, contributing directly to SoC designs used across automotive and high-performance computing applications. You’ll operate in a technically strong environment where functional safety is taken seriously, and where your input shapes architecture-level decisions rather than being bolted on at the end.

Our client develops system IP and integration technology used by leading semiconductor companies worldwide. Their teams work closely across architecture, design and verification to deliver scalable, safety-compliant IP for complex SoCs and chiplet-based designs.

Reporting into the IP Engineering function, the Functional Safety Engineer will take ownership of hardware functional safety activities, ensuring ISO 26262 compliance across safety requirements, analyses and documentation. You’ll work closely with architects and design teams to define safety mechanisms at both architecture and micro-architecture level.

Responsibilities include

• Acting as the functional safety lead for semiconductor design IP products
• Defining and maintaining hardware functional safety requirements and technical safety concepts
• Producing and reviewing safety analyses including FMEA, FMEDA and DFA
• Supporting the selection and implementation of hardware safety mechanisms
• Maintaining safety documentation including Safety Case and Safety Manual (SEooC)
• Performing safety impact analysis following design changes
• Supporting fault-injection planning, execution and review activities
• Ensuring requirements traceability across tools and documentation

What you’ll bring

• Strong background in digital design, SoC architecture or verification
• 3+ years’ experience in functional safety for semiconductor applications
• Solid understanding of ISO 26262 and safety-driven development flows
• Familiarity with micro-architectures and hardware safety mechanisms
• Working knowledge of ARM architectures and AMBA protocols is beneficial
• Experience using standard EDA tools and structured engineering processes
• Master’s degree (or higher) in electrical or computer engineering, or equivalent experience

Why this role stands out

You’ll work on safety-critical IP that underpins some of the most widely used SoCs in the market, with strong collaboration across highly technical teams. The role offers a competitive salary (€55,000–€70,000), hybrid working in Sophia Antipolis, and the opportunity to deepen your expertise in functional safety within a specialist semiconductor environment.

If you are interested in the Functional Safety Engineer position, please contact Emily Wright.