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Senior Safety & Security Engineer (Automotive)

Job ID 2025-15704 Date posted 22/09/2025 Location Cambridge, United Kingdom Category Security
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Job Overview:

Arm’s hardware is at the heart of the AI, computing, and connectivity revolution that continues to transform the way people live and businesses operate.

As part of our continued growth, we are looking to hire a Senior Safety & Security Engineer. Based in our office in Cambridge, you will be working on next generation IP products in close collaboration with colleagues at our offices around the world.

You will join an expert and motivated team responsible for developing the next generation of Automotive IP products. This role coordinates functional safety and security activities within a project, developing the safety context, leading safety and security activities, and fostering safety culture while adhering to established methodologies. You will be responsible to act as liaison for the project to product management, quality management and assessors.

With the growth of the Automotive sector and other product segments where functional safety and security is a key requirement, we are leading the way in developing cores that can address these applications.

Would you like to be in a creative, multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural environment, in a role with exciting responsibilities and an opportunity to make an impact on our industry? We would love to hear from you!

Responsibilities:

  • Coordinate functional safety and security activities within the project
  • Develop and maintain functional safety and security work products adhering to established methodologies
  • Develop and deploy continual improvement initiatives to ensure functional safety and security practices are effective and efficient.
  • Support safety and security analysis within the team and develop associated work products such as FMEA, FMEDA, DFA and Threat Modelling.
  • Foster safety and security culture with the team as well as alignment, collaboration, and cross organizational communication.
  • Review and provide feedback on documentation to ensure its correctness and completeness before external publication
  • Work with the product manager on establishing functional safety requirements for the product
  • Assist project manager on activity planning, resource estimation and training
  • Facilitate accurate completion of functional safety and security work products and associated reviews
  • Act as a technical liaison between the engineering team and assessors during functional safety and security assessment

Required Skills and Experience :

  • Experience working on functional safety or security-related development projects applying industry recognized standards, e.g., ISO 26262, ISO 21434, IEC 61508
  • Experienced with application of Safety Analysis and/or Security Analysis methodologies using industry-standard tools: FMEA, FMEDA, DFA, SPFM/LFM, PMHF and Threat Modelling
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills
  • Familiarity with hardware design and development, HDL languages, i.e. Verilog, VHDL and programming languages, i.e. C, Perl, Python
  • We seek enthusiasm and flexibility; you are hardworking with a real passion for Safety and Security

Education

  • BS in Electrical or Computer engineering or equivalent
  • MS in Electrical or Computer engineering

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience :

  • Exposure to projects developing safety critical automotive products and solutions
  • Experience with authoring and reviewing technical documentation

In Return:

Arm is committed to global talent acquisition. Arm is a diverse organisation of dedicated, creative, and highly hardworking engineers. By enabling a dynamic, inclusive, meritocratic, and open workplace, where all our people can grow and succeed, we encourage our people to share their outstanding contributions to Arm's success in the global marketplace.

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At Arm, we want to build extraordinary teams. If you need an adjustment or an accommodation during the recruitment process, please email accommodations@arm.com. To note, by sending us the requested information, you consent to its use by Arm to arrange for appropriate accommodations. All accommodation or adjustment requests will be treated with confidentiality, and information concerning these requests will only be disclosed as necessary to provide the accommodation. Although this is not an exhaustive list, examples of support include breaks between interviews, having documents read aloud, or office accessibility. Please email us about anything we can do to accommodate you during the recruitment process.

Hybrid Working at Arm

Arm’s approach to hybrid working is designed to create a working environment that supports both high performance and personal wellbeing. We believe in bringing people together face to face to enable us to work at pace, whilst recognizing the value of flexibility. Within that framework, we empower groups/teams to determine their own hybrid working patterns, depending on the work and the team’s needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases, the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and where this is the case, we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you.

Equal Opportunities at Arm

Arm is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and colleagues. We are a diverse organization of dedicated and innovative individuals, and don’t discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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