Principal Systems Engineer - Safety & Autonomous Architecture

Kodama Systems Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Kodama Systems Inc. is seeking a Principal/Staff Systems Engineer, Safety & Architecture to own system-level architecture and safety across our teleoperated and autonomous machine platform.

You will work across hardware, software, networking, controls, and field operations to strengthen architecture, safety analyses, and verification as the platform evolves. This senior individual contributor role will report to the CTO and serve as the technical owner for system safety, defining requirements,

Qualifications

• BS or advanced degree in electrical, mechanical, systems, or related engineering field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience designing or integrating complex, safety-critical electromechanical systems across hardware, software, networking, controls, and physical-machine behavior.
• Experience developing system requirements and interfaces and applying system safety methods through design, integration, and verification.
• Ability to lead cross-disciplinary technical decisions and hands-on debugging, data, and machine testing when needed.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain system requirements, fault behavior, and performance requirements across hardware and software boundaries.
• Own system safety analysis, including hazard analyses, safety requirements, FMEAs, fault trees, and analysis of failures or degraded system behavior.
• Lead next-generation architecture and requirements for safety-critical control systems, including safety controllers and E-stops.
• Translate system and safety requirements into verification strategies and evidence that new capabilities are ready for field deployment.
• Ensure Kodama’s architecture and engineering practices apply relevant safety standards (BS EN 17067:2018, BS EN 62745:2017, ISO 17757:2019).
• Serve as a technical resource to customers, OEM partners, and other external stakeholders on system architecture and safety.

Skills

System safety analysis

Architecture design

Requirements development

Cross-disciplinary leadership

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

FMEA

Job description

Kodama Systems Inc. is seeking a Principal/Staff Systems Engineer, Safety & Architecture to own system-level architecture and safety across our teleoperated and autonomous machine platform.

You will work across hardware, software, networking, controls, and field operations to strengthen architecture, safety analyses, and verification as the platform evolves. This senior individual contributor role will report to the CTO and serve as the technical owner for system safety, defining requirements,