Senior Robotics Safety Engineer for Mass-Produced Systems

Roboticsconnected; Mountain View (WY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Rhoda AI is building advanced generalist humanoid robots with a complete robotics stack. We seek a senior safety engineer to lead safety-related features and verify system-level safety across architecture, testing, and certification.

You will derive requirements, design fail-safe and fail-operational strategies, and work with engineering teams to implement robust safety cases for complex electromechanical systems.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of mass-produced electromechanical product development experience.
• Data collection/analysis using Python or statistical tools.
• Proven experience in systems safety engineering (HARA, DFMEA, FTA, STPA).
• Experience with safety cases for complex electromechanical robotic systems.
• Proven track record from inception to mass production including safety certification.

Responsibilities

• Develop safety-related features for RhodavAI humanoid robot.
• Derive requirements related to stopping, collision avoidance, sensing, motor control and diagnostics.
• Define fail-safe, fail-degraded and fail-operational architectures.
• Drive requirements from inception to verification and approval to implementation.
• Create instrumentation/verification equipment to derive and verify requirements and diagnostics strategies.
• Provide hands-on support to System Integration and Applications teams.
• Collaborate with Mechanical, Electrical, Software and Applications teams.

Skills

Mass-produced products

Data collection & analysis

Systems safety engineering

Safety certifications

Deriving safety requirements

Test case design & fault injection

Education

B.S. in Robotics/Mechatronics/EE/CS

Job description

Rhoda AI is building advanced generalist humanoid robots with a complete robotics stack. We seek a senior safety engineer to lead safety-related features and verify system-level safety across architecture, testing, and certification.

You will derive requirements, design fail-safe and fail-operational strategies, and work with engineering teams to implement robust safety cases for complex electromechanical systems.