Systems Engineer, Safety

The role

The Systems Engineer will define and maintain system-level architecture for autonomous construction equipment. This role involves decomposing requirements across hardware, software, and mechanical subsystems to ensure functional safety.

What you will do

• Develop actionable requirements and metrics for the system, with a focus on safety
• Support development of the functional safety concept and supporting technical safety concepts
• Define and maintain system-level architecture and interface requirements
• Lead or contribute to safety analyses such as HARA, FMEA, STPA, and FTA
• Define safety mechanisms such as redundancy, diagnostics, watchdogs, and graceful degradation
• Participate in design reviews across hardware, software, and mechanical disciplines
• Work with the V&V lead to establish verification and validation plans
• Support root cause analysis for field and test issues

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in systems engineering, with direct involvement in functional safety work products (e.g., under ISO 13849, ISO 26262, or IEC 61508)
• Strong ability to work with data to drive system understanding and feature prioritization and develop trade studies
• Experience with verification and validation methods
• Experience with safety analysis and risk assessment methods
• Experience writing and decomposing system-level requirements, and tracing them through to verification
• Familiarity with safety mechanisms such as redundancy, watchdogs, diagnostics, and fault detection
• Bachelor's or advanced degree in systems engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related field
• Ability to work across hardware, software, and mechanical teams and communicate technical tradeoffs clearly in writing and in review

Nice to have

• Experience with autonomous or robotic systems, particularly those operating in unstructured or dynamic environments
• Experience with STPA
• Experience with third-party safety assessment (e.g., TÜV, UL)
• Familiarity with sensing and compute hardware relevant to autonomy (cameras, lidar, GNSS, IMUs)
• Experience with heavy equipment, construction, mining, or agricultural machinery

About the company

Bedrock retrofits heavy equipment like excavators to allow for autonomous work. The company is using Series C funding to expand into new machine types and job-site tasks.