# System Safety Engineer, Mining/Industrial

**Company:** [Applied Intuition](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/applied-intuition)
**Location:** Sunnyvale, CA
**Role:** Other
**Salary:** $125k – $225k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Iso 26262, Hazop, Fmea, System Safety Analysis, Safety Case Development, Risk Assessment, Safety Requirements Derivation, V-Cycle, Hw Fmeda, Jama
**Posted:** 2026-06-23

> Systems Safety Engineer developing machine-level safety cases, hazard analyses, and safety requirements for autonomous mining and industrial vehicles. Requires 3+ years of ISO 26262 experience and hands-on safety analysis for electromechanical systems.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Develop and own machine-level safety cases for autonomous mining vehicle deployments and driverless operations
- Design and develop hazard identification and risk assessment activities 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 systems, autonomous motion control systems, and remote operation functions
- Analyze hazardous machine behavior, failure modes, and fault propagation paths to identify required prevention, detection, and mitigation measures
- Translate operational hazards and engineering findings into clear, implementable system safety requirements and verification criteria
- Support architecture reviews and identify safety gaps across sensing, compute, controls, hydraulics, actuation, communication, and operational processes
- Work across vehicle functions including braking, steering, propulsion, autonomy, operator controls, machine monitoring, and site integration activities
- Support development of validation strategies and safety acceptance criteria for machine-level demonstrations and driverless deployments
- Collaborate with systems, controls, autonomy, software, hardware, and validation teams to ensure safety requirements are implemented and verified end-to-end
- Participate in machine bring-up, fault injection activities, 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
- Strong experience with HAZOP, FMEA, safety requirement derivation, risk assessment, and safety case development
- Good 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

## Nice to Have
- Familiarity with requirements management and traceability tools (JAMA, DOORS, Polarion, or equivalent)
- Working knowledge of machine safety and industrial safety standards such as ISO 19014, ISO 17757, ISO 13849, IEC 62061, and ISO 12100
- Experience working with mining, construction, agricultural, industrial, robotics, autonomous vehicle, or heavy equipment programs
- Previously worked on OS, Device drivers and Platform level Safety
- Candidates with automotive functional safety experience, particularly ISO 26262 Part 4, HARA, FSC/TSC development, ADAS, or autonomous driving systems are considered relevant and transferable

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