Senior Functional Safety Engineer – Robotics & Automation

StartX; Redwood City (CA); Vor Ort; USD 130.000 - 192.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Dexterity, an enterprise Physical AI company, headquartered in Redwood City, CA, is hiring a Lead Functional Safety Engineer to own the complete safety lifecycle for industrial robots, autonomous mobile systems, and drivetrain architectures. You will ensure compliance across NA, EU, and JP markets, and collaborate with engineering, certification bodies, and customers to deliver safe, reliable systems.

You will develop FS plans, perform risk analyses, manage QMS integrations, and guide safety

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or a related engineering discipline.
• 10+ years of functional safety experience in robotics, autonomous systems, industrial automation, automotive, aerospace, or other safety-critical machinery domains.
• Hands-on experience with servo drives, inverters, motor controls, encoders, brakes, safety PLCs, safety I/O, and safety-rated networks.
• Demonstrated ownership of the complete safety lifecycle: hazard and risk analysis -> safety requirements -> PLr/SIL determination -> architecture -> implementation -> validation.
• Ability to evaluate manipulator and mobile-platform/drivetrain hazards, including stopping distance, stored energy, braking, unintended motion, and loss of control.
• Experience with Structured Text, Ladder Logic, and/or Function Block Diagram, along with PLCs, microcontrollers, and safety-related embedded systems.
• Functional safety certification such as TÜV Functional Safety Engineer, CFSE, CFSP, or CMSE preferred.
• Candidates must be able to determine how a safety-critical failure is detected, how the system reaches a defined safe state, and how the required PL/SIL is quantitatively justified and demonstrated through analysis, implementation, and validation.

Aufgaben

• Create and maintain a Functional Safety Management Plan across product lifecycles.
• Develop and integrate Quality Management System (QMS) processes for safety activities, reviews, and audits.
• Perform machinery risk assessments per ISO 12100 and define safe states and functions.
• Support certification activities with UL, TÜV, NRTL, and other bodies.
• Interpret regulations and advise engineering teams on practical safety application.
• Develop safety architectures for E-stop, Safe Torque Off, protective stopping, and speed limits.
• Apply ISO 13849-1/-2 and IEC 62061, including redundancy and diagnostics.
• Analyze failure modes for motors, drives, encoders, and control systems.
• Define safety interfaces among PLCs, controllers, drives, motors, and I/O; specify safe data handling.
• Apply PROFIsafe, CIP Safety, EtherCAT/FSoE; understand PROFINET and EtherNet/IP interfaces.
• Perform FMEA/DFMEA, FTA, fault injection, and safety-case analyses; translate to requirements.
• Plan verification and validation for stopping performance, sensor faults, and safe state achievement.
• Support safety-related PLC/embedded implementation and scalable safety training.
• Engage with customers to explain FuSa decisions and system guardrails.

Kenntnisse

Servo drives

Inverters

Motor controls

Encoders

Brakes

Safety PLCs

Safety I/O

Safety networks

Structured Text

Ladder Logic

Function Block Diagram

Safety certification

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Mechanical or related engineering

Tools

PLC programming

Jobbeschreibung

Dexterity, an enterprise Physical AI company, headquartered in Redwood City, CA, is hiring a Lead Functional Safety Engineer to own the complete safety lifecycle for industrial robots, autonomous mobile systems, and drivetrain architectures. You will ensure compliance across NA, EU, and JP markets, and collaborate with engineering, certification bodies, and customers to deliver safe, reliable systems.

You will develop FS plans, perform risk analyses, manage QMS integrations, and guide safety