Senior Software Engineer - Functional Safety Automation (Ireland)

Red Hat is rethinking how the automobile industry updates software in cars. Rather than adding more computing power to an automobile, let’s add wheels to a computer that we know how to ship.

The Red Hat Engineering team is looking for an Automotive Functional Safety Software Engineer to join us. In this role, you’ll be coordinating work with other engineers, architects, product managers, scrum masters, and community members to create Red Hat’s first ever offering of Linux in cars.  This is a new venture with a lot to discover. As an Automotive Functional Safety Software Engineer, you will be a member of an engineering team that embraces psychological safety, enabling every team member to contribute to the joint success. The team will be focusing on the engineering activities underpinning functional safety certification. Your knowledge and experience developing software products and conducting automotive functional safety certification would be extremely valuable to our continued certification and product release journey. Successful applicants must reside in a country where Red Hat is registered to do business.

You can find more information about the technology here:

• Automotive SIG

• CentOS Automotive SIG Announces New AutoSD Distro

What You Will Do

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to achieve safety certification for the platform, supporting Red Hat’s Linux-based automotive offering.

• Gain a strong understanding of the end-to-end product development lifecycle and applied industry best practices in engineering and delivery.

• Contribute to the implementation and continuous improvement of Red Hat’s functional safety lifecycle processes.

• Translate high-level safety requirements from Functional Safety (FuSa) experts into actionable validation tasks to verify defined safety claims.

• Design and develop automation frameworks, tools, and pipelines to enable continuous certification and validation of the product.

• Investigate and triage failures identified during automated validation runs, ensuring timely root cause analysis and resolution.

• Collaborate closely with stakeholders—including Functional Safety experts, Product Managers, Product Owners, Quality Engineering (QE), and Development SMEs—to address gaps and drive issue resolution.

• Provide ongoing support to engineering teams in executing functional safety lifecycle activities, ensuring alignment with safety standards and project goals.

What you will bring

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.

• Proficiency in Python, with a strong focus on backend systems and APIs.

• Experience with AI coding assistants.

• Experience in Agile software development, delivering incremental value through short sprint cycles, continuous backlog refinement, and close collaboration with cross-functional teams.

• Familiarity with CI/CD systems such as Jenkins, GitLab CI etc.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and the ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Nice to Have

• Experience developing internal developer platforms or SaaS tooling for engineers.

• Prior participation in or contributions to open source software projects.

• Expertise in AI-assisted development, productivity analytics, or workflow automation. Agentic SDLC exposure.

• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure like AWS, Azure, or GCP.

• Experience developing and deploying containerized applications on Kubernetes or OpenShift.

• Practical knowledge of automotive functional safety standards (e.g., ISO 26262) and experience applying them to the software development lifecycle.

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