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Functional Safety Intern (m/f/d)

CompanySynapticon
LocationSchönaich
Work ModeOn Site
PostedSeptember 15, 2026
Internship Information
Core Responsibilities
You will manage safety tooling and ensure consistency between requirement files, ALM systems, and CI workflows. Additionally, you will support certification processes and refine requirements across product and system tiers.
Internship Type
intern / student
Company Size
76
Visa Sponsorship
No
Language
English
Working Hours
40 hours
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About The Company
Synapticon is a leading full-stack provider of intelligent drive and safety technologies for robotics and mechanical engineering. Headquartered in Schönaich near Stuttgart and with locations in Silicon Valley and Shenzhen, the company develops and produces highly integrated solutions for motion control and functional safety. The product portfolio includes the award-winning and safety-certified SOMANET Circulo and Integro servo drive families, power-dense actuators for robotics and mechanical engineering from the ACTILINK series, the OBLAC and MOTORCORTEX software solutions and the POSITRON Safety AI platform for the most demanding applications in the field of functional safety. With its software-first approach, deeply integrated electronics and innovative control technology, Synapticon reduces engineering complexity while increasing performance, precision and efficiency. Leading developers of industrial, collaborative, mobile and humanoid robots and complex machines worldwide rely on Synapticon as a trusted partner for the realisation of their most ambitious products.
About the Role

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We're looking for a motivated Functional Safety Intern (ideally 6 months, mandatory internship) to join our Safety Systems team in Schönaich (close to Stuttgart), with a flexible start date. You will own the tooling that keeps our safety evidence coherent — requirement files, our ALM system, test annotations and CI all need to agree with each other — and you will build it working alongside AI coding agents, every day. Roughly 60% of your time goes into safety tooling you own outright, 20% into supporting certification and assessment work, and 20% into requirements engineering. If that is your passion this is a uniquely impactful place to develop your skills.

HERE'S WHERE YOU MAKE AN IMPACT

  • Build and maintain the synchronisation between our requirement files and the ALM system

  • Write CI checks that enforce safety evidence rather than merely describe it — traceability from requirements to tests, and coverage figures that can be relied on

  • Maintain the automation around our review and release workflows, treating these as support tools under the standard, with the tool-qualification thinking that implies

  • Prepare responses to external assessor review protocols and track document versions issued to the assessor, so open points can be closed

  • Author and refine requirements across the product, system and unit tiers; maintain traceability and gap registers; keep requirements and architecture diagrams consistent with one another

WHO YOU ARE

  • Enrolled MSc student in Electrical Engineering, Software, Mechatronic or Robotics — with a strong interest in functional safety

  • Working knowledge of safety development lifecycles and workflows

  • Exposure to a functional safety standard (IEC 61508, ISO 13849, ISO 26262, or IEC 62061)

  • Familiarity with FMEA, diagnostic coverage, or failure-rate budgeting

  • Experience with ALM or requirements tools such as Polarion, codebeamer, Jama, or DOORS

  • Real experience working with AI coding agents (Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor or equivalent) — be ready to talk about what you built, where it was confidently wrong, and how you found out


WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU

  • Flexible working hours when life takes unexpected turns

  • Company support for gym memberships through Wellpass

  • Birthday vouchers

  • Drinks and coffee (free of charge, of course)

  • Snacks and fruit for all employees, as well as breakfast every Monday

  • Regular global team-building events such as boot camps, skiing, and summer BBQs

  • An international team with long-term prospects

  • Highly competent colleagues who are experts in their field and happy to support you in your learning and growth

  • Modern office space

  • Our company's WG (upon availability)

About us

HACKING THE PHYSICS AND ECONOMICS OF MOTION CONTROL WITH DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY

At Synapticon, we are revolutionizing motion control for robotics and machines—right at the point of motion.
Our approach is completely new: we integrate previously separate components such as motors, drives, sensors, and gearboxes into seamless units. At the same time, we are digitizing performance and quality factors that previously depended on expensive mechanical manufacturing.
World-leading innovators are choosing Synapticon to pave their way into the future of intelligent, motion-controlled systems.

Be part of our success story – apply now at Synapticon!
Key Skills
Functional safetyRequirement engineeringALM systemsCI/CDTraceabilityFMEAFailure-rate budgetingDiagnostic coverageAI coding agentsPythonISO 26262IEC 61508PolarionCodebeamerJamaDOORS
Categories
EngineeringSoftwareTechnologySecurity & SafetyManufacturing
Benefits
Flexible working hoursGym membership supportBirthday vouchersFree drinks and coffeeFree snacks and fruitWeekly breakfastGlobal team-building eventsModern office spaceCompany housing