Staff Systems Safety Engineer

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to the systems safety engineers, from hazard analysis and safety requirements through site risk assessment and commissioning, be accountable for the technical quality of their work, and…
• Set technical direction across the safety team, review its work, and mentor engineers through coaching, technical guidance, and input on hiring, and keep the team’s day-to-day technical priorities aligned to long-term…
• Author the system-level safety architecture (including AI) and functional safety concept, driving architecture-level safety decisions across current and next-generation platforms, balancing performance, technical risk,…
• Serve as technical authority for safety trade-offs, residual risk recommendations, component and architectural decisions, and conflicts between safety and product goals
• Author and maintain the safety case, ensuring evidence from software, hardware, AI, user safety, and deployment is complete, consistent, and traceable, including the SOTIF argument for hazards that arise without a fault
• Perform system-level safety analyses that span the domain roles, such as system fault trees and common-cause failure analysis, lead in-depth design reviews of safety-critical subsystems, and take hands-on ownership of…
• Define the safety lifecycle, including the AI safety lifecycle under ISO/IEC TS 22440 and the SOTIF process under ISO 21448, and safety engineering methods, and the technical criteria for design reviews, safety gates,…

Job requirements

• Proven hands-on leadership of functional or system safety for complex robotic, machinery, or autonomous products from concept through deployment, including authoring safety architectures and safety cases
• Deep expertise in hazard analysis and risk assessment, the hierarchy of controls, safety function definition, and the safety lifecycle under IEC 61508, IEC 62061, ISO 13849, and ISO 12100
• Experience with robot and machinery safety standards, such as ISO 10218, ANSI/A3 R15.06, ANSI/A3 R15.08, and ISO 25785-1, and with the safety of robot deployments at customer sites
• Experience providing technical leadership and mentoring to safety engineers across hardware, software, and system topics
• Experience building a safety case and working with notified bodies, NRTLs, or third-party assessors
• Familiarity with safety of AI/ML-enabled systems, such as ISO/IEC TS 22440 and SOTIF (ISO 21448), and with requirements tools such as JAMA
• Strong executive communication, strategic thinking, and the judgment to make and defend risk-based decisions
• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Robotics, Computer Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience); Master’s preferred