Safety Engineer

About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Safety Engineer who can own functional safety end-to-end for our humanoid platform: hazard analysis, architectural decisions, component selection, certification, and the messy real-world testing in between.

Standards like ISO 3691-4, and ISO 10218 tell you what outcomes you must achieve. ISO 25785-1 is currently under development requiring robot dynamic stability control including zero-energy pose protocols, and fall zone markings. They do not tell you how to get there with a bipedal, dynamically balancing, multi-DOF system that doesn't fit cleanly into the assumptions those standards were written under. We need someone who treats that gap as the interesting part of the job - not a blocker.

Responsibilities

• Lead the safety lifecycle for our humanoid platform: hazard analysis, risk assessment, SIL/PL determination, safety requirements specification, and validation.
• Design safety architectures (E-stops, safety-rated monitored stops, power and force limiting, speed and separation monitoring) appropriate to a mobile, dynamically balancing robot.
• Select and justify safety-rated components: controllers, sensors, contactors, and where no off-the-shelf component fits, design or specify alternatives that achieve equivalent safety integrity.
• Drive certification efforts, and own the technical file.
• Partner with mechanical, electrical, controls, and AI teams to bake safety into the design rather than bolt it on.
• Build the test fixtures, procedures, and evidence needed to prove our safety claims.
• Stay ahead of evolving standards (ISO 25785-1, the in-progress humanoid-specific work, etc.) and translate them into engineering decisions..

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of safety engineering experience on industrial robots, collaborative robots, AGVs/AMRs, or comparable machinery.
• Deep working knowledge of ISO 13849, IEC 62061, IEC 61508, and ISO 10218 (or ANSI/RIA R15.06); familiarity with ISO/TS 15066 for collaborative applications.
• Software safety experience (IEC 61508-3) in addition to systems-level work.
• Hands-on experience taking a product through safety certification - not just supporting it, but owning the technical narrative and defending it to assessors.
• Comfort with the full toolkit: FMEA, FTA, HAZOP, STPA, and the judgment to know which to reach for.
• A creative mindset. Standards rarely dictate components; they dictate outcomes. We want someone who can architect a novel solution, justify it against the standard's intent, and convince a notified body it meets the bar.
• Strong communication - you'll be explaining safety tradeoffs to executives, engineers, and external assessors who all need different versions of the same story.