Lead Safety Engineer, Robotics
Lead safety strategy and risk management for robotics products, partnering with engineering, legal, and policy teams to integrate safety into architecture and meet regulatory standards.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Define and lead the product safety strategy for robotic systems across the development lifecycle.
- Monitor and influence emerging regulatory frameworks, industry standards, and policy developments relevant to robotics and autonomous systems.
- Partner with engineering teams to translate safety requirements into product architecture, design decisions, and engineering requirements.
- Develop and maintain system-level hazard analyses, risk assessments, and safety cases for robotic products.
- Establish safety requirements, verification strategies, and evidence-generation plans to support product development and future certification activities.
- Collaborate with legal, policy, and leadership teams to assess regulatory risks and inform long-term product strategy.
- Partner with hardware, software, controls, and research teams to identify hazards and develop mitigations throughout the development process.
- Lead system-level hazard analyses, HARA activities, FMEAs, and other structured risk assessment processes to identify hazards, evaluate risks, and drive mitigation strategies throughout product development.
- Represent the company in discussions with standards bodies, industry groups, regulators, and external safety experts when appropriate.
- Help build and scale the safety engineering function as the robotics organization grows.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in product safety, functional safety, systems safety, robotics safety, or related disciplines.
- Experience working with safety and regulatory frameworks such as ISO 10218, ISO 13849, IEC 61508, ISO 12100, ANSI/RIA standards, or comparable safety standards.
- Experience developing hazard analyses, risk assessments, safety cases, or certification strategies for complex electromechanical systems.
- Familiarity with robotics, autonomous systems, industrial equipment, consumer products, medical devices, automotive systems, aerospace systems, or other safety-critical technologies.
- Experience working with regulators, standards organizations, certification bodies, or industry working groups.
Nice-to-Haves
- Enjoy applying first-principles thinking to complex safety and risk management challenges.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity where regulations, standards, and technology are evolving simultaneously.
- Can balance technical, regulatory, operational, and business considerations when making recommendations.
- Enjoy working across disciplines and influencing engineering decisions without direct authority.
- Passionate about building products that are both innovative and demonstrably safe.
Skills
Iso 10218, Iso 13849, Iec 61508, Iso 12100, Ansi/Ria, Hazard Analysis, Risk Assessment, Fmea, Hara, Safety Cases, Functional Safety, Systems Safety, Regulatory Strategy
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