Senior Functional Safety Engineer – Autonomous Construction

System Safety; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Bedrock Robotics is seeking a talented Functional Safety Engineer to define the functional and technical safety concept across the system, with a focus on hardware. You will work with safety, hardware, and software teams to conduct safety analysis, develop diagnostics, generate fault metrics, and guide safety lifecycle activities.

The role requires 7+ years in safety-critical hardware or systems engineering, hands-on hardware experience, and strong knowledge of ISO 13849, IEC 61508, IEC 62061,

Qualifications

• BS or advanced degree in electrical, mechanical, systems, or a related engineering field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years in safety-critical hardware or systems engineering, including several focused on functional safety.
• Hands-on hardware background: designed, reviewed, or debugged hardware.
• Experience with functional safety standards ISO 13849, IEC 61508, IEC 62061, ISO 26262, ISO 25119, or ISO 19014.
• Strong experience with safety analysis.
• Comfort with real-time and embedded systems and fail-safe/ fail-operational architectures.

Responsibilities

• Define the functional safety concept for the system.
• Author HW safety concepts at the hardware level.
• Collaborate with HW teams on architectural requirements for future HW platforms.
• Write HW safety requirements and drive design of safety mechanisms.
• Establish test plans for verification and validation of safety requirements.
• Define test infrastructure and automation for program execution.
• Perform safety analyses such as HARA, FMEA, FMEDA, and FTA.

Skills

Functional safety

HARA / FMEA

HIL testing

Fault tolerance

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

FMEDA

FTA

FMEA

HIL

Job description

Bedrock Robotics is seeking a talented Functional Safety Engineer to define the functional and technical safety concept across the system, with a focus on hardware. You will work with safety, hardware, and software teams to conduct safety analysis, develop diagnostics, generate fault metrics, and guide safety lifecycle activities.

The role requires 7+ years in safety-critical hardware or systems engineering, hands-on hardware experience, and strong knowledge of ISO 13849, IEC 61508, IEC 62061,