We9re growing our sizable fleet of retrofitted autonomous construction machines, and we9re looking for a talented functional safety engineer to help define the functional and technical safety concept across the system, with a focus on hardware. You will work alongside the safety, hardware and software teams to conduct safety analysis, develop diagnostics, generate fault metrics, and guide key system elements through the end-to-end safety lifecycle.
Key Qualifications- Direct experience in delivering functional safety work products according to ISO 13849, ISO 26262, IEC 61508 or similar
- Strong foundational knowledge in safety engineering techniques such as HARA, FMEA, FMEDA, FTA, and STPA
- Experience defining and executing verification & validation in a safety context, including fault injection and HIL testing
- Familiarity with design and implementation of safety mechanisms and fault handling measures, such as TMR, watchdogs, redundancy management, and graceful degradation
Description and Responsibilities- Help define the functional safety concept for the system
- Author technical safety concepts at the HW level
- Partner with HW team to understand architectural requirements for future HW platforms
- Author HW safety requirements and drive design of safety mechanisms
- Establish test plans for verification and validation of the safety requirements
- Define test infrastructure and automation to support timely program execution
- Execute safety analysis such as HARA, FMEA, FMEDA, and FTA
Background- BS or advanced degree in electrical, mechanical, systems, or a related engineering field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 7+ years in safety-critical hardware or systems engineering, including several focused specifically on functional safety.
- Hands-on hardware background: you have designed, reviewed, brought up, debugged, or qualified electrical and electronic hardware yourself, not only assessed it from documents.
- Working knowledge of functional safety standards ISO 13849, IEC 61508, IEC 62061, ISO 26262, ISO 25119, or ISO 19014 and how they apply to different systems and applications.
- Strong experience with safety analysis
- Comfort with real-time and embedded systems, fail-safe and fail-operational architectures, and the failure modes of sensing and compute hardware.
- Comfort working directly with hardware and test infrastructure to execute and debug safety features and tests
Ways to stand out- Experience with autonomous systems
- Experience with system-level functional safety
- Hands-on certification or third-party assessment work (T V, UL, etc.)
- Experience standing up fault injection / HIL benches
- Background in sensing and compute: cameras, lidar, GNSS, IMUs
- Familiarity with heavy construction machines such as excavators, articulated dump trucks, dozers, wheel loaders, or motor graders.
How we workWe are a startup, so we look for engineers with an appetite for agility. We do not compromise on safety and we still find ways to move extremely fast. In practice that means we would rather have a sharp, quantified argument about one real hazard than an exhaustive document nobody reads.
Our roles are often flexible. If you don9t fit all the criteria, or are in another location (especially one where we have an office like SF or NY) please apply anyway! We9d love to consider you.
