Safety Engineering Manager - Mining Deployments

Pronto; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 195,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical / Dental / Vision coverage

401(k)

Equity

Sick Time, PTO & Holidays

Parental Leave

Commuter Benefit

Team lunch in SF office

Job summary

Pronto in San Francisco seeks a Senior Safety Engineer to lead off-road safety cases for autonomous haulage systems. You will build and defend safety arguments, perform system and operational hazard analyses, and define tests and site controls. The role includes managing incident triage, change assessment, and mentoring a small team of engineers.

You will work with Python or SQL to analyze event data, travel to sites as needed, and help ensure rigorous safety standards across deployments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in systems safety or safety engineering.
• Built a safety argument from scratch and defended its sufficiency.
• Structured hazard analysis depth at system and operational levels.
• Wrote the process for investigation, triage, and qualification.
• Comfortable leading one or two engineers while writing the safety case.
• Proficient in Python or SQL to analyze event data.
• Willingness to travel to sites.

Responsibilities

• Build the off-road truck safety case with claims, evidence, limits, and open items.
• Perform hazard analysis and tie results to site controls.
• Prepare tests and define acceptance criteria and evidence.
• Manage commissioning readiness and gate between installed and operating.
• Own incident intake, severity model, investigations, and corrective actions.
• Assess changes from software releases, new truck variants, or site layouts.
• Grow and lead a small team of engineers.
• Develop tooling and site risk assessments, adapt procedures per site.
• Maintain boundary discipline: hazard lists as hypotheses, not final risk.

Job description

Who We Are

Pronto AI is a global leader in commercializing autonomous vehicle (AV) technology, deploying Autonomous Haulage Systems (AHS) that automate operations in mines, quarries, and construction sites worldwide. While much of the industry remains in R&D, we deliver real, production-ready autonomy that is already operating in the field. We are on a mission to make mining operations safer, smarter, and more efficient through cutting-edge technology, and we are building toward becoming the world’s first profitable AV technology company.

What You’ll Do

• Build the off-road truck safety case. Claims, evidence, limits, and what remains open. Keep it current as trucks, sites and software change, and be clear about what it does not cover.
• Hazard analysis. What the installation introduces on a given truck, what the site already carries, and what the combination creates. Drive the results into requirements and into site controls.
• Test preparation. Define what has to be demonstrated before a truck operates autonomously at a site: the procedures, the acceptance criteria, and what evidence each test actually produces.
• Commissioning readiness. Hold the gate between installed and operating. This is a real gate, and you are the person who helps specify when a site is not ready.
• Incidents and triage. Own the intake path, the severity model, the investigations, and corrective actions through to verified closure.
• Change assessment. Decide what a software release, a new truck variant or a new site layout does to the argument, and what has to happen before it goes live.
• Grow and lead a small team. You will hire one or two engineers as the work justifies them, and lead them. This is not a management role in the usual sense: the safety case, the commissioning gate and the investigations that matter stay with you, while your team takes the recurring load. If you are looking for a path to a large org, this is not that job yet.
• We expect this role to be materially more productive than the same role was three years ago, and we expect AI tooling to be the reason. A small team covers a surface that would otherwise need several, and the tooling is how that becomes possible rather than a fiction.
• Use it as a working instrument: drafting and maintaining site risk assessments from a common baseline, adapting procedures per site, triaging an event backlog, and finding patterns across sites that nobody reading one site's reports would see.
• Build your own tooling rather than filing tickets for it, and keep it running once other people depend on it.
• Be rigorous about the boundary. A generated hazard list is a hypothesis to verify, never a risk assessment. Safety determinations need a human who has looked at the evidence and walked the site.

What We’re Looking For

• 8+ years in systems safety, safety engineering or a closely related systems discipline in a safety‑critical domain. Mining experience is not required.
• You have built a safety argument from scratch — claims, evidence, structure — and defended its sufficiency to someone who pushed back.
• Structured hazard analysis depth at both the system and the operational level, and the judgment to pick the method the situation actually warrants.
• You have written the process rather than inherited one: investigation, triage, qualification, or their equivalents. Tell us who ran it after you wrote it and what broke.
• Comfortable leading one or two people while still being the person who writes the safety case rather than reviewing it.
• Python or SQL sufficient to work event data yourself rather than waiting for an analyst.
• Willingness to travel to sites when needed.

Nice to have

• Off‑road, heavy vehicle or industrial machinery experience — mining, quarrying and aggregates, construction, ports or agriculture.
• Working knowledge of US mine safety regulation, including MSHA Part 46 and 48 training requirements and Part 50 reporting.
• Experience commissioning autonomous or remotely operated equipment on a customer’s site.
• Experience adapting an existing safety method into a new domain rather than starting over.
• Experience building a small team from a standing start.

Why join us

• Work on real, production‑deployed autonomy.
• Build technology that directly improves safety, efficiency, and productivity.
• Tackle complex challenges in demanding, real‑world environments.
• Be part of a fast‑moving team with high ownership and impact.
• See your work deployed and making a difference in the field.
• Collaborate closely with experienced engineers and industry operators.

What Else You Need To Know

This role is based in our San Francisco office location. As a company driven by innovation and continuous change, close collaboration is essential. We’re constantly reimagining our industry, creating new products, and refining our processes, and we do our best work together. That’s why all of our office‑based teams work onsite, five days a week.

The base salary range for this role is $195,000 - $240,000 per year.

Actual compensation will be determined on an individual basis and may vary depending on experience, skills, and qualifications.

Base salary is just one part of your total rewards package. You may also be eligible for equity awards.

Benefits Summary (USA Full-Time Exempt Employees)

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, and Life Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account / Health Savings Account Options
• 401(k)
• Equity
• Sick Time, Unlimited Flexible Time Off, and Paid Holidays
• Paid Parental Leave
• Pre‑Tax Commuter Benefit Plan
• Team lunch in our SoMa office every Tuesday and Thursday

Benefits Are Subject To Change At The Company's Discretion.