This is a Staff position reporting directly to the Head of Safety and Certification. We're looking for a technical executor with a bias for action, impeccable rigor, and the ability to drive cross-disciplinary teams. The candidate must demonstrate deep technical credibility and the appetite to grow into a leadership position as the safety organization scales.
What You'll Do- Perform Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment of humanoid robots across specific customer applications
- Develop Functional Safety Concepts, Functional Safety Requirements, and Technical Safety Requirements
- Perform system-level analyses to derive requirements related to stopping distances, perception, and timing/spatial/force constraints
- Derive requirements for fail-safe and fail-operational behaviors, degraded states, and human-robot interactions
- Develop test cases for verification and validation
- Define, engineer, deploy, and employ system safety validation equipment at HIL, SIL, and system level
What We're Looking For- B.S. in Electrical Engineering
- Certified Functional Safety Engineer in IEC 61508 or ISO 26262
- Experience designing safety systems for complex electromechanical products with significant safety aspects
- Experience in optics, machine vision, and computer vision
- Evidence of hands-on engineering work - test benches, measurement, and root-cause analysis, not just documentation
- Hands-on experience in verification and validation of safety requirements using HIL and SIL
Nice to Have (But Not Required)- Experience in humanoid robots, automotive, or autonomous mobile robots (AMR)
- Certified Functional Safety Engineer in Machinery Safety
- Experience designing and deploying industrial automation and safety systems
- Certified SOTIF ISO 21448 engineer
- Experience in automotive ADAS collision avoidance
- Experience with laser sensors, LiDAR, and time-of-flight cameras
- Hands-on experience performing FMEDA per IEC 61508 or ISO 26262
- In-depth understanding of safety-critical architectures for compute, networking, and power distribution
Why This Role- Define the safety foundation for a humanoid robot operating in real-world human environments - work that is technically deep, consequential, and genuinely unsolved at this scale
- Report directly to the Head of Safety and Certification with a clear path to grow into a leadership role as the safety organization scales alongside the company
- Work at the intersection of functional safety, AI-driven control, and novel electromechanical systems - a combination that doesn't exist anywhere els
