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Bedrock Robotics

Robot type
Construction
Location
San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Hardware
Posted
Aug 6, 2026
Full-time

Senior Functional Safety Engineer (Hardware)

Job description

At Bedrock, we're moving AI out of the lab and into the real world. Our team includes veterans who helped launch Waymo, scaled Segment to a $3.2B acquisition, and grew Uber Freight to $5B in revenue. Today, we're deploying autonomous systems on heavy construction equipment across the country, improving safety on job sites and accelerating schedules on critical infrastructure projects. We're not here debating the future of AI. We're deploying it in the real world. In just two years, we've raised $350M and achieved the first fully autonomous excavator deployments in construction. This is where algorithms meet steel-toed boots.

We’re growing our sizable fleet of retrofitted autonomous…

Job 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

Job requirements

  • 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

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