Lead Robotics System Safety Engineer

Rhoda AI; Mountain View (WY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Rhoda AI in the United States seeks a senior Safety Engineer to lead safety-related features for our mass-produced humanoid robot platform. You will derive safety requirements, implement fail-safe strategies, and drive verification across electrical, mechanical, and software domains.

Collaborating with Mechanical, Electrical, and Applications teams, you will establish data-driven safety cases, perform DFMEA/FTA/STPA analyses, and guide cross-functional teams toward certification-ready solutions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years mass-produced electromechanical product development experience.
• Degree in robotics, mechatronics, EE or CS.
• Data collection and analysis methodologies with Python or statistics tools.
• Proven experience in safety engineering for complex electromechanical robotic systems.
• Track record of safety-critical product development from inception to mass production.
• Experience deriving safety requirements through analysis and experimentation.
• Experience developing test cases with fault injection and data-driven verification.
• Experience in EE/ME/SE disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Develop safety-related features of RhodavAI humanoid robot
• Derive requirements related to stopping, collision avoidance, collision sensing, motor control and diagnostics
• Define fail-safe, fail-degraded and fail-operational strategies and required architectures
• Drive requirements from inception to approval to implementation to verification
• Invent, implement and use custom instrumentation and verification equipment for the purpose of deriving, verifying requirements and developing diagnostics strategies
• Hands-on support of System Integration and Application Engineering teams
• Work closely with Mechanical, Electrical, Software and Applications teams

Skills

Safety engineering

DFMEA

FTA

STPA

Data analysis

Python

Systems integration

Robot hardware

Education

B.S. in Robotics, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering or Computer Science

Job description

Rhoda AI in the United States seeks a senior Safety Engineer to lead safety-related features for our mass-produced humanoid robot platform. You will derive safety requirements, implement fail-safe strategies, and drive verification across electrical, mechanical, and software domains.

Collaborating with Mechanical, Electrical, and Applications teams, you will establish data-driven safety cases, perform DFMEA/FTA/STPA analyses, and guide cross-functional teams toward certification-ready solutions.