Chief Safety Architect for Mobile Robots

Ashby, Inc.; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 134,000 - 172,000; Full time

Job summary

Dynamic Creatures, based in Cambridge, MA, is seeking a Head of Safety to own safety across the company. You will define safety strategy, build the engineering system behind it, and remain hands-on from architecture through validation and deployment.

You will work with founders and engineering leaders to make safety a design input, release requirement, and operating discipline. You will champion safety across hardware, software, AI, and cloud systems.

Qualifications

• Experience owning safety for physical robots or similarly complex electromechanical products operating near people.
• Track record of leading hazard analysis, safety architecture, verification, and deployment.
• Strong systems engineering judgment across hardware and software.
• Experience turning standards and risk assessments into practical design decisions, testable requirements, and release gates.
• Hands-on experience with validation, fault injection, incident investigation, and field feedback loops.
• Credibility to challenge designs while helping teams find practical paths forward.
• Clear communication with engineers, executives, partners, and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own the product and system safety program across the full robot lifecycle: concept, design, integration, verification, deployment, operations, and change control.
• Lead hazard identification and risk assessment using methods such as FMEA, fault-tree analysis, HAZOP, and STPA.
• Translate hazards into safety requirements, architectures, and engineering priorities across mechanical, electrical, embedded, controls, autonomy, AI, and cloud systems.
• Define and verify safety functions, limits, diagnostics, degraded modes, emergency behavior, and human-robot interaction safeguards.
• Build the validation strategy and evidence: test plans, fault injection, abuse and edge-case testing, traceability, safety cases, and release-readiness reviews.
• Own the roadmap for relevant standards and certifications (ISO 12100, ISO 13482, ANSI/CAN/UL 3300, ISO 13849, IEC 61508, IEC 62061).
• Establish safe deployment practices for guest-facing environments, including site assessment, operating procedures, incident reviews, field monitoring, and corrective action.
• Work with external labs, partners, customers, insurers, and regulators as needed.
• Build and lead the safety function as the company grows.

Skills

Safety leadership

Systems engineering

Hazard analysis

Safety architecture

Validation & testing

Cross-functional communication

Job description

Dynamic Creatures, based in Cambridge, MA, is seeking a Head of Safety to own safety across the company. You will define safety strategy, build the engineering system behind it, and remain hands-on from architecture through validation and deployment.

You will work with founders and engineering leaders to make safety a design input, release requirement, and operating discipline. You will champion safety across hardware, software, AI, and cloud systems.