Principal Engineer, Physical AI for Robotics & Autonomy

UL Solutions; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 155,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary range: $155,000-$175,000 per yr

Job summary

UL Solutions is seeking a Principal Engineer - Physical AI for the Consumer TIC group in the United States. You will serve as the global SME for AI-enabled physical products and cyber-physical systems, leading technical programs, standards development, testing, and advisory services.

The role spans robotics, autonomous systems, edge AI, and connected intelligent products, with broad influence across regulatory engagement and industry forums.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in a technical discipline such as Robotics, Electrical/Computer/Mechanical/Systems Engineering, AI or CS.
• 15+ years of technical experience in robotics, autonomous systems, embedded systems, cyber-physical systems, product safety, functional safety, controls, AI-enabled products, or related engineering domains; with 5+ years in AI-enabled physical systems, robotics, autonomy or ML-enabled products.
• Hands-on experience developing, integrating, evaluating, testing, or validating AI-enabled physical systems or autonomous technologies in real-world environments.
• Knowledge of Physical AI technologies, failure modes, hazards, risks, and evaluation methodologies including perception and sensing errors, sensor-fusion failures, unsafe autonomous behaviors, human-machine interaction hazards, and risk-mitigation controls.
• Familiarity with robotics, machinery, product safety, functional safety, cybersecurity, and AI governance standards or regulatory frameworks.
• Strong technical writing, presentation, and stakeholder engagement capabilities to communicate risks and evidence expectations to technical, business, regulatory and customer audiences.

Responsibilities

• Develop standards, certification and verification programs, assessment methodologies, test requirements, and technical criteria for AI-enabled physical products.
• Define and apply methods to evaluate system behavior in real-world and foreseeable-use scenarios including use and misuse, ODD, perception and sensing limits, decision-making, navigation and task execution, human interaction, supervision and override, fail-safe and safe-state behavior, minimum-risk conditions, robustness, reliability and lifecycle changes.
• Develop and launch customer-facing offerings such as Physical AI readiness assessments, robotics and autonomy evaluations, embodied AI assessments, advisory engagements, training programs, and certification pathways.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to strategic customers, regulators, standards organizations, and industry forums; represent UL Solutions through technical committees, publications, conferences and regulatory engagement.
• Build consistent global delivery capability through evaluator competency frameworks, training, technical guidance, test procedures, and operational transfer mechanisms.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline

Job description

UL Solutions is seeking a Principal Engineer - Physical AI for the Consumer TIC group in the United States. You will serve as the global SME for AI-enabled physical products and cyber-physical systems, leading technical programs, standards development, testing, and advisory services.

The role spans robotics, autonomous systems, edge AI, and connected intelligent products, with broad influence across regulatory engagement and industry forums.