Geared toward mid-level safety engineers comfortable with novel solutions in robotics, requiring hands-on certification experience and creative standards interpretation.
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Original posting from Mindrobotics via Ashby
ABOUT THE ROLE
We're looking for a Senior Safety Engineer who can own functional safety end-to-end for our humanoid platform: hazard analysis, architectural decisions, component selection, certification, and the messy real-world testing in between.
Standards like ISO 3691-4, and ISO 10218 tell you what outcomes you must achieve. ISO 25785-1 is currently under development requiring robot dynamic stability control including zero-energy pose protocols, and fall zone markings. They do not tell you how to get there with a bipedal, dynamically balancing, multi-DOF system that doesn't fit cleanly into the assumptions those standards were written under. We need someone who treats that gap as the interesting part of the job — not a blocker.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead the safety lifecycle for our humanoid platform: hazard analysis, risk assessment, SIL/PL determination, safety requirements specification, and validation
- Design safety architectures (E-stops, safety-rated monitored stops, power and force limiting, speed and separation monitoring) appropriate to a mobile, dynamically balancing robot
- Select and justify safety-rated components : controllers, sensors, contactors, and where no off-the-shelf component fits, design or specify alternatives that achieve equivalent safety integrity
- Drive certification efforts , and own the technical file
- Partner with mechanical, electrical, controls, and AI teams to bake safety into the design rather than bolt it on
- Build the test fixtures, procedures, and evidence needed to prove our safety claims
- Stay ahead of evolving standards (ISO 25785-1, the in-progress humanoid-specific work, etc.) and translate them into engineering decisions
QUALIFICATIONS
- 5–10 years of safety engineering experience on industrial robots, collaborative robots, AGVs/AMRs, or comparable machinery
- Deep working knowledge of ISO 13849, IEC 62061, IEC 61508, and ISO 10218 (or ANSI/RIA R15.06); familiarity with ISO/TS 15066 for collaborative applications
- Software safety experience (IEC 61508-3) in addition to systems-level work
- Hands-on experience taking a product through safety certification — not just supporting it, but owning the technical narrative and defending it to assessors
- Comfort with the full toolkit: FMEA, FTA, HAZOP, STPA, and the judgment to know which to reach for
- A creative mindset. Standards rarely dictate components; they dictate outcomes. We want someone who can architect a novel solution, justify it against the standard's intent, and convince a notified body it meets the bar
- Strong communication — you'll be explaining safety tradeoffs to executives, engineers, and external assessors who all need different versions of the same story
Source: Mindrobotics careers (Ashby)