System Safety Engineer, Mining/Industrial
Develops machine-level safety cases, hazard analyses, and safety requirements for autonomous mining and industrial equipment. The role requires hands-on system safety experience, knowledge of ISO 26262, and collaboration across hardware, software, controls, and validation teams.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Develop and own machine-level safety cases for autonomous mining vehicle deployments and driverless operations.
- Lead hazard identification and risk assessment activities for machine functions and operational scenarios, including HAZOP, System FMEA, Functional Failure Analysis, Operational Risk Assessment, and Safety Gap Analysis.
- Perform safety analysis and derive Machine Safety Requirements (MSRs) for brake-by-wire, steer-by-wire, throttle-by-wire, shift/transmission-by-wire, emergency stop, autonomous motion control, and remote operation functions.
- Analyze hazardous machine behavior, failure modes, and fault propagation paths to identify prevention, detection, and mitigation measures.
- Translate operational hazards and engineering findings into implementable system safety requirements and verification criteria.
- Support architecture reviews and identify safety gaps across sensing, compute, controls, hydraulics, actuation, communication, and operational processes.
- Support vehicle functions including braking, steering, propulsion, autonomy, operator controls, machine monitoring, and site integration.
- Develop validation strategies and safety acceptance criteria for machine-level demonstrations and driverless deployments.
- Collaborate with systems, controls, autonomy, software, hardware, and validation teams to implement and verify safety requirements end-to-end.
- Participate in machine bring-up, fault injection, safety validation, field testing, and site acceptance activities.
- Review HW FMEDAs, reliability analyses, diagnostic coverage assumptions, and fault detection mechanisms to support machine-level safety arguments.
- Support customer safety reviews, regulator discussions, operational readiness reviews, and deployment sign-offs.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, computer science, systems engineering, software engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 3+ years of system safety experience, with a primary focus on safety per ISO 26262 Part 6.
- Hands-on experience developing system-level safety analyses and safety artifacts for complex electromechanical systems.
- Experience with HAZOP, FMEA, safety requirement derivation, risk assessment, and safety case development.
- Understanding of vehicle and machine control systems, including braking, steering, propulsion, hydraulics, and autonomous control functions.
- Ability to analyze interactions between hardware, software, controls, operators, and operational environments.
- Experience collaborating across software, hardware, and systems engineering teams to implement safety requirements end-to-end.
- Experience defining safety requirements and mitigation strategies from identified hazards and failure modes.
- Experience supporting verification and validation activities for safety-critical systems.
- Hands-on experience producing safety work products across the V-cycle.
- Automotive functional safety experience, particularly ISO 26262 Part 4, HARA, FSC/TSC development, ADAS, or autonomous driving systems, is considered relevant and transferable.
Nice to Have
- Familiarity with requirements management and traceability tools such as JAMA, DOORS, Polarion, or equivalent.
- Working knowledge of ISO 19014, ISO 17757, ISO 13849, IEC 62061, and ISO 12100.
- Experience with mining, construction, agricultural, industrial, robotics, autonomous vehicle, or heavy equipment programs.
- Experience with OS, device drivers, and platform-level safety.
Compensation and Benefits
- Base salary, equity, and benefits.
- Comprehensive health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance coverage.
- 401(k) retirement benefits with employer match.
- Learning and wellness stipends.
- Paid time off.
Skills
Iso 26262, Hazop, Fmea, Hara, Safety Cases, Risk Assessment, Safety Requirements, Functional Failure Analysis, Fmeda, Jama, Doors, Polarion, Iso 19014, Iso 17757, Iso 13849
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