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Making journeys safer, cleaner and smarter

Category: Recruitment Publish date: 01/09/2022

Making journeys safer, cleaner and smarter Working in collaboration with global vehicle manufacturers and suppliers, HORIBA MIRA is an automotive engineering, research and test consultancy with experience in developing some of the world’s most iconic vehicles. We provide comprehensive support for technology development, integration and verification, through to full-vehicle development and certification.

We’ve been around for more than 75 years and are traditionally known for our vehicle test services – with over 40 major facilities and 100km of Proving Ground – but we’re so much more than this. Over the last 10 years we’ve invested heavily in the evolution of our engineering capability and development of MIRA Technology Park, our automotive R&D cluster.

As a business, we’ve long employed veterans and reservists, in addition to civilians, and were last year honoured to receive a Gold Award in the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme. We recognise the value of Service leavers and reservists, as well as the contribution they make to our organisation.

We're recruiting for a number of roles within our Functional Safety Team



As mobility becomes increasingly connected and automated, there is a crucial need for safe and functionally robust products. Our Functional Safety team help our customers meet their legal and ethical obligations, providing them with assured products that differentiate them from their competitors.

As a leading independent provider of Functional Safety and SOTIF expertise, we have over 100 years of combined experience within the team. We’re very active in the committee development groups for key standards like ISO 26262 and ISO PAS 21448, which gives us a detailed and thorough knowledge of the intent, and future direction, such standards will take.

However, our expertise is not limited to the automotive domain, with recent projects including off-highway vehicles, defence and industrial control applications; and we have experience working to other safety standards such as IEC 61508, ISO 13849, ISO 15998, Def Stan 00-56 and the MISRA guidelines.


Current vacancies include, but are not limited to:

Functional Safety Manager, Japan, Competitive Salary

Senior Functional Safety Engineer, Nuneaton, £32k - £55k

Functional Safety Consultant, Nuneaton, Up to £55ph

Functional Safety Software Consultant, Nuneaton, Competitive Salary

Functional Safety Consultant, Nuneaton, £42k - £62k

We pride ourselves on being professional, diligent and thorough in the way we approach functional safety, while recognising that we must also be flexible, pragmatic and solution-focused in order to support our clients achieve their functional safety goals. If this sounds like you, and you’d like to work in our world-class, independent engineering consultancy, operating in multiple locations around the world, we’d love to hear from you.

Company Benefits

We provide excellent training and career development prospects, as well as the opportunity to work on projects with industry experts who are at the cutting-edge of the sector.

We’ve established ‘Life Links’ team member groups that enable colleagues to get together and form friendships across the business, and often hear about the success of these groups in our company initiative ‘Life Stories’.

Company benefits include:


  • 27 days holiday + statutory days (with the option to participate in a holiday buy/sell scheme)
  • A generous contributory pension plan
  • A company performance related bonus scheme
  • A fantastic Employee Assistance Programme which offers a range of wellbeing services to staff
  • Reimbursement of fees for corporate memberships for relevant Chartered/professional institution
  • A range of tax efficient salary sacrifice options including a car lease and cycle to work scheme
To view all available vacancies, head to the Career Transition Partnership’s online job portal: RightJob.