Product Safety Engineer / Electronic Safety Engineer

About the team

‘The people we rely on to make the world go round – they rely on Thales’. In a fast-changing and increasingly unpredictable world full of opportunities, people come to us with big ambitions – to make your life better and more secure. Our employees, who are part of a unique and varied team with many different fields of expertise and a wide range of talents and cultures, develop and deliver outstanding high-tech solutions.

Thales employs 83,000 highly talented people in 68 countries. Almost 3,000 of these are based in the Netherlands. We are one of the largest high-tech employers in the field of security and protection.

We help our customers think smarter and act faster in the fields of defense, aerospace, aviation technology and cyberspace, to manage and control their increasingly complex processes and make the best possible business decisions. This is why we play a leading role in digital transformation, focusing on Artificial Intelligence, Big Data & Data Analysis, Connectivity, Mobility, Internet of Things, Cyber Security.

In Amsterdam we deliver a wide range of engineering solutions to the Land Forces in order to support them in their communication and situational awareness needs. One of the key subsystems is SOTAS, providing Voice communication and IT infrastructure inside a Military vehicle. From standard product we provide customer specific solutions including the evidence of compliance to the customer requirements   

For the SOTAS Hardware Engineering Team, Thales (Amsterdam) is looking for a talented

Product Safety Engineer / Electronic Safety Engineer

You will be a member of multidisciplinary teams of hardware (electronics, mechanics), test engineers and specialists who work together on the development of new communications products. These teams work together with internal departments and external companies for the realization of our products, often in an international environment. Most projects can be characterized as highly innovative and do have a high technological level.

About your future job
As a Product Safety Engineer, you are responsible for ensuring the safety of our SOTAS products and testtools: from concept and design to validation and certification. You conduct systematic safety analyses and translate regulatory requirements into concrete design and verification activities.

You work closely with system, hardware, and software engineers, project management, and compliance specialists to ensure that products are proven compliant with international standards and customer-specific safety requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare and maintain safety dossiers

• Apply safety engineering in accordance with MIL-STD-882

• Translate normative requirements (including EN IEC 62368-1 and IEC 61010) into design rules and verification criteria

• Coordinate internal and external safety reviews and assessments processes where applicable

• Support verification and validation activities (testing, inspections, compliance checks)

• Advise design teams on risk reduction and safe architectural choices

• Act as the point of contact for safety towards customers, certifying bodies, and stakeholders

• Analyse and assess design documentation on it’s safety aspects and identify and classify all potential energy sources and possible risks they may pose.

• Communicating any safety issue gathered by analysis and assessment with the design team and the Project Safety Manager to work towards a mitigation of the risk that issue might present.

• Creating a comprehensive formal document that will be used to substantiate the safety compliance claim, based on a chosen Safety Standard that includes an extensive checklist, analysis and test results.

• Performing safety tests to provide evidence to support the compliance documentation.

• Monitoring the progress of the “safety solution” of a design by participating in design team meetings, performing technical design reviews and organizing special safety related sessions.

• Standards Framework (experience or affinity with):

• EN IEC 62368-1 (Audio/video, information and communication technology equipment)

•  EC 61010 (Measurement, control, and laboratory equipment)

• MIL-STD-882 (System Safety)

About you

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Embedded Systems, Mechatronics, or equivalent

• experience with product safety engineering

• Strong knowledge of risk management and safety lifecycle processes

• Experience with multidisciplinary development teams

• Structured working approach and strong documentation skills

• Proactive, independent attitude with eye for detail and pragmatic solutions

• The ability to look at a product/design from a perspective that identifies possible risks, to intended users or the environment, that may result from design choices made with primarily  functionality in mind. 

NOTE: Security Requirements
European citizenship and passport are both required. Non-EU nationality and/or passport are not eligible in accordance with the requirements imposed by the military.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in high-reliability environments (defense, industry, medical, or mission-critical systems)

• Familiarity with compliance processes and certification

• Experience with requirement management tools (e.g., Polarion)

• Familiarity with Hazard Based Safety Engineering

What's in it for you 

• A challenging job in a great team within our high-tech, innovative work environment. Includes the freedom for initiative and good ideas.

• Room for personal and professional growth within our organization, for example in regard to technical, commercial or international skills. 

• Valuable international collaboration with coworkers from 68 different countries around the globe. 

• A comfortable work space in a modern environment, with a focus on flexibility and the right work life balance.

• You can usually work where and whenever you want. Within Thales, we aim for a 60/40 balance, where you work from home up to two days a week, when your role allows this.

• A good salary, fitting travel allowance, and the ability to personalize your employment conditions: for instance, you can trade PTO for internet costs, our bicycle plan, company fitness and relocation costs.

• 40 days off per year

Interested? 
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