Safety & Lab Operations Lead - Robotics AI Testing

United States Digital Space LLC; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 134,000 - 168,000; Full time

Job summary

Scale is seeking a Safety Coordinator / Lab Lead in San Francisco to anchor our physical testing operations. You will own safety audits, incident documentation, root-cause analysis, and risk mitigation across robotics hardware and labs.

You'll lead daily lab operations, asset management, and cross-functional coordination with hardware and software teams, while building a strong safety culture and onboarding for new researchers and partners in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience: 3+ years of experience in lab management, safety coordination, or technical operations within a high-velocity robotics, aerospace, automotive, or autonomous vehicle R&D environment.
• Safety Protocols: Demonstrated experience building out structured audit workflows and detailed incident documentation pipelines (familiarity with OSHA standards or ISO robotics safety standards is highly valued).
• Technical Comfort: Ability to seamlessly navigate an environment featuring complex physical hardware, multi-modal sensors, and advanced compute rigs.
• Communication & Drive: Exceptional written communication skills for documentation, with the assertive communication style required to enforce safety protocols across a brilliant, fast-moving engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Design, schedule, and execute routine safety audits across all physical testing environments and hardware workspaces.
• Own the end-to-end incident management pipeline, documenting, archiving, and analyzing lab incidents and near-misses.
• Lead structured post-incident RCA investigations and implement CAPAs.
• Track safety metrics and audit trends to mitigate hazards across facilities.
• Develop standard safety practices and documentation for multiple facilities.
• Manage daily lab operations, layout, organization, and upkeep of testing arenas.

Skills

Safety coordination

Lab management

Technical operations

Communication

Tools

OSHA standards knowledge

ISO robotics safety standards

Job description

Scale is seeking a Safety Coordinator / Lab Lead in San Francisco to anchor our physical testing operations. You will own safety audits, incident documentation, root-cause analysis, and risk mitigation across robotics hardware and labs.

You'll lead daily lab operations, asset management, and cross-functional coordination with hardware and software teams, while building a strong safety culture and onboarding for new researchers and partners in a fast-paced environment.