Staff Robotics System Safety Engineer
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LocationMountain View
Work modeon-site
Typefull-time
SeniorityLead
Experience10+ yrs
DepartmentHardware
Company size201–500 people
PostedJun 22, 2026 · 4mo ago
Verified live3d ago
May no longer be actively hiring
Posted by the company on Jun 22, 202655% of this company's open roles have been listed for 90+ days
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10+ years mass-produced electromechanical product development experience
B.S. in Robotics, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering or Computer Science
Data collection and analysis methodologies - data acquisition and instrumentation, data conversion and analysis using Python or statistical tools, data presentation
Proven experience in systems safety engineering, including HARA, DFMEA, FTA, STPA and safety case development for complex electromechanical systems with significant robotic aspect
Proven track record of complex safety-critical product development from inception to mass production, including passing through safety certification
Proven experience deriving safety requirements for a robotic system through analysis and experimentation
Proven experience in developing test cases with fault injection, instrumenting and executing those test cases, analyzing data and presenting to cross-functional teams to argue for a passing result or a pivot in design or test methodology
Proven experience working in at least one of the three basic disciplines: Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Software Engineering
Certification from TUV Rheinland or similar in Functional Safety (IEC 61508 or Machinery)
Experience in AI safety for Physical AI
In-depth understanding of autonomy sensor methods - vision, TOF, laser, etc
In-depth understanding of motor control
In-depth understanding of safety-critical embedded systems electronics, firmware and software
Significant experience developing, characterizing or troubleshooting various electric and pneumatic actuators
Experience designing and deploying robotic solutions for industrial manufacturing
Experience with robotics more than one industry, among surgical, aerospace, automotive, mining, earth-moving, agricultural, home and commercial service robots
M.S. Engineering degree
Skills
Python
Data acquisition
Instrumentation
Data conversion
Statistical tools
Data presentation
HARA
DFMEA
FTA
STPA
Safety case development
Fault injection
Test cases
Mechanical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Software Engineering
TOF
Laser
Motor control
Embedded systems
Electronics
Firmware
Software
Electric actuators
Pneumatic actuators
Robotic solutions
Industrial manufacturing
About the company
At Rhoda AI, we’re building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots. Our robots are designed to be generalists capable of operating in complex, real-world environments and handling long-tail edge cases, made possible by our cutting edge research and end-to-end system design. We’ve raised over $450M and are investing aggressively in model research, infrastructure, hardware development, and manufacturing scale-up to make generalist robotics a reality.
Responsibilities
Job duties
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Develop safety-related features of RhodavAI humanoid robot
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Derive by analysis and/or empirically requirements related to stopping, collision avoidance, collision sensing, motor control and diagnostics
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Define fail-safe, fail-degraded and fail-operational strategies and required architectures
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Drive requirements from inception to approval to implementation to verification
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Invent, implement and use custom instrumentation and verification equipment for the purpose of deriving, verifying requirements and developing diagnostics strategies
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Hands-on support of System Integration and Application Engineering teams
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Work closely with Mechanical, Electrical, Software and Applications teams
Requirements
Requirements:
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10+ years mass-produced electromechanical product development experience
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B.S. in Robotics, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering or Computer Science
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Data collection and analysis methodologies - data acquisition and instrumentation, data conversion and analysis using Python or statistical tools, data presentation
•
Proven experience in systems safety engineering, including HARA, DFMEA, FTA, STPA and safety case development for complex electromechanical systems with significant robotic aspect
•
Proven track record of complex safety-critical product development from inception to mass production, including passing through safety certification
•
Proven experience deriving safety requirements for a robotic system through analysis and experimentation
•
Proven experience in developing test cases with fault injection, instrumenting and executing those test cases, analyzing data and presenting to cross-functional teams to argue for a passing result or a pivot in design or test methodology
•
Proven experience working in at least of one of the three basic disciplines: Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Software Engineering
Nice to have
Nice to have
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Certification from TUV Rheinland or similar in Functional Safety ( IEC 61508 or Machinery)
•
Experience in AI safety for Physical AI
•
In-depth understanding of autonomy sensor methods - vision, TOF, laser, etc
•
In-depth understanding of motor control
•
In-depth understanding of safety-critical embedded systems electronics, firmware and software
•
Significant experience developing, characterizing or troubleshooting various electric and pneumatic actuators
•
Experience designing and deploying robotic solutions for industrial manufacturing
•
Experience with robotics more than one industry, among surgical, aerospace, automotive, mining, earth-moving, agricultural, home and commercial service robots
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M.S. Engineering degree