Senior Staff, Product Safety Engineer

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Provide safety assurance across the full technical stack (hardware through AI/ML) and support readiness reviews and safety gate sign-off for new capabilities (e.g., autonomous navigation, dynamic locomotion,…
• Develop and evaluate V&V strategies, acceptance criteria, test coverage, and objective safety evidence ensuring safety requirements and risk controls perform as intended.
• Prepare recommendations and evaluate safety analyses, claims, mitigations, and readiness evidence across perception, planning, controls, locomotion, actuation, and HRI to determine if claims are adequately supported.
• Evaluate safety implications of releases, firmware updates, model changes, configuration changes, and hardware revisions – including drive-by-wire actuation, fault detection, and safe-state behavior – as part of change…
• Support incident investigations, corrective actions, post-market monitoring, and incorporation of field learning into safety assurance.
• Collaborate with engineering teams and Safety Case owners to ensure consistency in safety processes, evidence quality, rigor, maturity across products and platforms.
• Translate global and domestic regulations, standards, and certification expectations into internal safety policy and procedures and support continuous improvement of the Safety

Job requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Robotics, or related discipline
• 6+ years in product safety, systems safety, functional safety, safety assurance, verification & validation (V&V), robotics, autonomous systems, automotive, aerospace, medical devices or another safety-critical field
• Understanding of AI/ML safety implications and AI-enabled system V&V
• Demonstrated V&V expertise, including test strategy, methodology, acceptance criteria, coverage, and objective (normative) safety evidence
• Strong systems engineering understanding across hardware, software, firmware, controls, sensors, actuators, cyber-physical systems
• Experience with safety-critical software development, software release processes, software quality assurance, configuration management, or safety-related change management, hazard analysis, FMEA/FMECA, STPA, STAMP,…
• Familiarity with IEC 61508, ISO 21448/SOTIF, ISO 13849, IEC 62061, ISO 42001, ISO/IEC TS 22440, EU AI Act and/or applicable robotics safety standards
• Experience with safety certification, regulatory submissions, audits or external safety assessments in the areas of autonomous, mobile, industrial, humanoid, quadruped or other robotic systems is preferred